Definder - what does the word mean?

What is Short Timer?

Originally dating back to the Vietnam War. When one's rotation date (leave the country) was near, one lost focus on still being a soldier, and became a liability instead of an asset. Also, the period of time at the end of the 12th grade, when one has already been accepted into a college or the military, and is just waiting for the Senior Prom and Graduation ceremonies.

I wonder if Simon Cowell is getting short-timer's syndrome on American Idol?

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Short Timer - video

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Short Timer - what is it?

The behaviors that kick in when you are about to leave something, usually a job. There are two facets, one is that all of the little crap that you've been ignoring and tolerating starts driving you crazy. The other is the idea that you're leaving anyway so you can get away with anything.

The accountant with short timer syndrome was thinking about wearing flip flops to work during his last two weeks before starting a new job. And the short timer in Ann Arbor, about to move to Buffalo had to resist the urge to strangle all of the smug half-wit aging hippies.

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What does "Short Timer" mean?

The inability to care about your job or that of your co-workers when your departure from your place of employment is imminent. Symptoms include some or all of the following: coming in late; making excuses to leave early; an ever-lengthening lunch hour; cleaning your desk weeks or even months in advance of said departure; treating co-workers like crap because you are leaving and they are staying; telling everyone and anyone who does or does not care about the details or the new job.

Man does Steve has a bad case of Short Timers Disease.
Short time, Short Timer

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Short Timer - what does it mean?

When a person gets promoted and has to stay in their current position for a week or two.

Mike's got Short Timers man! He took vacation for the last 4 days in his current position!

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Short Timer - meaning

Book by Gustav Hasford describing his experiences in the Vietnam War.

Later made into a movie by Stanley Kubrick, Full Metal Jacket, starring Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey and others.

The Short Timers is the book that the movie Full Metal Jacket is based on.

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Short Timer - definition

Someone who is sentenced to the county pokey for 30 days or less.

Quit yer bitch ass cryin', you're just a short timer.

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Short Timer - slang

After turning in your resignation, you end up not giving a damn about your job during the remaining two weeks notice you gave them

Sure, I'm leaving and gave two weeks notice, but I REALLY want it to be over NOW. I have short timer disease

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Short Timer

That bastard co-worker who found a better job and no longer gives a shit about shit.

Don't even bother waking Jim, he's a short timer.

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Short Timer

A luck son of a bitch who moves out west for the snow season in a couple of days, so clearly not a fuck will be given at work.

That bastard will be waist deep in fresh powder in two days, fucking short timer.

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Short Timer

Any person in the military that has a year or less on their contract. Therefore they don't give a flying fuck about their job anymore.

SPC Joe Snuffy: Man i got to wake up and go to pt. Fuck that im going back to bed im a short timer.

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