Time thief

Someone who takes up your time with pointless explanations or anecdotes.

When asking a collegue a yes/no question, he replied with a 45 minute response. Not only that but he sent a follow up email later that day and when I didn't reply once again accosted me with with his response (which still didn't answer the question). My collegue is a time thief as he took more than an hour of my time.

Time thief by happykat October 14, 2009

time thief

1. one who takes an extra 15 minutes for their lunch. every day.

2. a person (or persons) who comes back late from meetings even though they were round the corner and the meeting was cancelled.

theres a guy in my office who takes the fucking piss constantly. the other day he went to meet a client in the morning and didnt come back until the afternoon with some shyte excuse about train delays and the food taking 'ages'. the fucking time thief.

time thief by toiletgraffiti March 16, 2005

time is a thief 

It means that the time is going faster then you thought, and that it can have consequences.

You better get the butter, time is a thief.

time is a thief by 22AndJew May 29, 2017

time theft 

Taking longer breaks at work then your employer allows you to. This is probably the one you'll hear the term refer to the most.

It supposedly costs employers huge amounts of money every year.

Time theft can also apply to the time it takes to:

Clean up other people's messes.
Delete spam.

Manager: Hmmm, Bobby took 2 minutes longer on his break then he was supposed to. I'm going to write him up.

Supervisor: He also helped two customers while he was on his way to his break. We should thank him for taking that time from his break rather then berate him for something as insignificant as two minutes.

Manager: That's still time theft. Bobby makes $7 an hour, that’s twenty-three point three cents a minute. Two minutes rounded up means he cost us forty-seven cents! If he did that every day a week for a year, assuming five days a week, that would cost us about one-hundred-twenty-one dollars over the course of a year!

Supervisor: Perhaps but isn’t that worth the price of a happy employee opposed to a stressed out employee? In the end, the happy employee will perform better. Besides, he always gets his work done and often gets quite a bit more accomplished. Maybe we should be happy for that instead of being picky. If we were talking him extending fifteen-minute breaks to thirty minutes and lunches to forty-five minutes then maybe.

Manager: You know what, you’re right. That much money is worth happy employees. Instead of writing him up, I’ll thank him for a job well done.

time theft by Optomist with experience November 11, 2006

Timethief 

Someone who is always late, meaning they are constantly steeling other people's time and wasting other people's lives.

You're five hours late! That's five hours of my life I'm never getting back you timethief!

Timethief by Rikstir July 31, 2015

Timethief 

An annoying internet Troll who hides behind many anonymous fake avatars, otherwise known as the invisible copy & paste buffoon. She seems to think everyone else is wrong and she alone is right but first she has to run a Google search so she doesn't sound like she doesn't know what the hell she's talking about. After all she has to keep face in the community. Definitely an old dried up wrinkled faced woman, who's days of youth are gone and now waste her time trying to compete with women half her age. Just randomly name any country in the world and she'll tell you she visited or vacationed there too. Yet everyone already realizes she doesn't know shit.

timethief
timesuck
timewaste

Timethief by xena777 December 11, 2011

timethief 

The act of annoying someone with pointless conversation, and purposely using up their time.
Usually for the fun or sport of it.

Dude you're being a freaking timethief i have stuff to do.

timethief by TYLER630 May 18, 2008