Green’s Dictionary of Slang

jotters n.

[SE jot, to write (hastily or briefly); the image of being given a written dismissal]

In phrases

get/have the jotters (v.)

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

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[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 bringing prossies back tae ehs office in Westminster.
[Scot]A. Parks Bobby March Will Live Forever 202: ‘Chances are I’m going to get my jotters [...] Might be looking for another job soon’.
[Scot]A. Parks May God Forgive 147: ‘Not much you can do about it now [...] He’s had his jotters already’.