Green’s Dictionary of Slang

jotters n.

In phrases

get the jotters (v.)

(Scot.) to be rejected, to be dismissed from a relationship; to be dismissed from employment.

[Scot]T. Black Ringer [ebook] Monique will be getting the jotters sometime round about the third or fourth week [...] and it can fucking whistle if it thinks I’ll be handing over any of this poppy either.
[Scot]I. Welsh Decent Ride 61: The boy we had here in Edinburgh South, he got ehs jotters for brining prossies back tae ehs office in Westminster.