Playing at the same place you deal.

[ptartaglio]

Most respectable cardrooms have policies that their employees must well behaved in any other cardroom. I've actually seen a couple of dealers get punished by having to work tournaments for misbehaving in other casinos. I believe the dealers should be able to act however they want if you ask me, it will only hurt their tokes if they act poorly. However, any poker player who knows the rules should not violate them. And any decent dealer understands the basic etiquette and rules of poker. He was out of line, and you should call him on it since you know that he knows very clearly that he is out of line.