Short Timer
It’s inevitable. When people find out you gave notice to your current employer - everything you do is now labeled. You get the fabulous label of “short timer.”
Since I started working here, I have pretty much the same routine. I come in between 7 and 7:30, work until 4:30 and go home. Most days I don’t leave my desk to take lunch. So, roughly 9-ish hours or so a day. What’s ridiculous is that now I come in anywhere from 7 - 8:30, work until 4:30 and go home, still rarely leaving my desk for lunch. So roughly 8 hours or so a day. I’m still called a short-timer.
Examples: I had friends over to my house last weekend, where we ate about 1/8 of a cake. I brought the other 7/8 in to share with my co-workers. “Someone is happy they are leaving. Short timer!” Walking down the hall grimacing because I waited too long to pee: “Oh! Someone’s got a smile on their face. Short timer!” Had an early appointment causing me to miss a meeting: “Skipping meetings now? Short timer!” Stopped and got a coffee on the way in: Short timer!
I don’t know why it’s so important to me to prove that I’m not like that. I view each day as a work day, and even though two weeks from now my work day will be somewhere else I’m still here working today.
Then I tell myself if I’m going to be called and considered a short-timer no matter what I do (see above examples) so I might as well go ahead and be one. Last night I decided screw it. So, I set my alarm for 5:30 instead of 5:00am. I am feeling all kah-razy and shit. I might even go out for my lunch hour and still leave at 4:30 today…
Kah-razy like a short timer!
