<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's general notability guideline . Please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . If notability cannot be established, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted . Find sources: "Waiter Rule"--news newspapers books scholar JSTOR (May 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's general notability guideline . Please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . If notability cannot be established, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted . Find sources: "Waiter Rule"--news newspapers books scholar JSTOR (May 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> The Waiter Rule refers to a common belief that one's true character can be gleaned from how one treats staff or service workers, such as a "waiter". The rule was one of William H Swanson's 33 Unwritten Rules of Management, copied from Dave Barry's version "If someone is nice to you but rude to the waiter, they are not a nice person ." </P>

You can tell a lot about a person by how they treat their waiter