Tables Turn Around Quote . What's Your Interpretation

plazaman

We all hear the saying "the tables turned around" can you guys complete either by adding more to it or giving your point of view on it?

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Leo G

It's the HO thinking they have us by the balls. Only problem is at the price point that they are driving us to the only job they can get will suffer from lack of funds. You can only do so much with so little, a beer budget isn't going to buy you champagne no matter what the media says.

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Willie T

Turn the tables

Meaning:
Reverse the positions of adversaries. The phrase is often used when the weaker position subsequently becomes dominant.

Origin:
Games like backgammon are known as 'tables' games. The phrase 'turn the tables' derives from these games and from the practise of reversing the board so that players play from their opponent's previous position.

The first known example of the figurative use of the phrase in print is in Robert Sanderson's XII sermons, 1634:

"Whosoever thou art that dost another wrong, do but turn the tables: imagine thy neighbour were now playing thy game, and thou his."

The unfortunate thing about this two-fold saying is that we have done a lot, ourselves, to help create and perpetuate the first definition shown here. The average homeowner sees contractors as well heeled opportunists who make an exceptionally lucrative living off of them.

And conversely, both parties involved in most any situation completely dismiss the application of the second meaning shown here.

Both points are a sad commentary on us all, homeowners AND contractors. And our nation as a whole.

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Bill Everett - St. Petersburg, FL

Willie T

Do you recall seeing the peanut butter commercial on TV? The one where a mother and her two sons are getting ready to make peanut butter sandwiches, and, alas, there is but one slice of bread left?

The mother says "Cody gets to cut the slice of bread in half....."

So Cody, grinning from ear to ear, cuts the slice of bread slightly bigger for one half.

"But, Billy gets to choose." Mom says.

The final scene is Billy chomping away on the bigger half. He says, "I got a pretty big half, huh?"

How often would any of us cutting a deal with someone else be perfectly willing and happy to exchange positions once the bargain was struck?
Yeah, that's right. Not too many of us would be thrilled at that prospect.

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Bill Everett - St. Petersburg, FL

mikeswoods

I was hired as a consultant to help two brothers organize their business.

In the end they decided the best thing to do was to dissolve the partnership.

They were trying to put a number on the value of the business.

The numbers they were coming up with were pure fantasy.

I suggested that one should set the value and the other would have the option of either buying the business at that price or selling to his brother.

The partnership broke up after I left--I wish I knew the out come.

Baron

I am not ashamed at the prices I give my customers and have earned ever cut, bruise torn ligament and smashed fingers to get what I earn.

If any one of my customers wants to swap professions with me I'd be more than happy to take the executive pay for a job with vacations, health care and summers off with a retirement equal to my last three years of salary any day...any day.

In the insurance stats nationwide you would be surprised to find roofing and construction having a higher risk factor than both fireman and Policeman. In fact Taxi drivers are at the highest risk followed by various trades and heavy labor positions and some where way down about 14th or lower every year are usually the people who are telling you that your rates are too high.

Don't ever be ashamed of charging what you think you are worth and never belittle yourself and take the side of the unsophisticated and devious who are trying to steal your value for themselves.

Worth used to be something to be proud of and people used to respect that.

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Chasing Dreams

Amen!

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The only two things I want to hear.....Wow, you're really expensive! I hope your not to busy.

Willie T

Many of us find it very difficult to see much more than our own positions. Faced with treating someone else the exact same "fair" way we want to be treated (especially where money is involved), we will often fight tooth and nail not to let it happen.

"What I'm doing to him is fair and just. But if he did the same thing to me, I would be getting screwed."

Kinda sounds like chatter from somewhere deep inside a nut house. Yet it's exactly how many of us feel, and how we operate on a daily basis.

To keep this on track, I think to 'turn the tables' has evolved to only mean 'get even'.

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"True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and only that which is."
François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Bill Everett - St. Petersburg, FL