you don't dip your pen in company ink
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English
editAlternative forms
edit- you don't dip your pen in the company's ink
- you don't dip your pen in the company inkwell
- you don't dip your pen in the inkwell
Proverb
edityou don't dip your pen in company ink
- One should avoid romantic or sexual relationships in the workplace.
- 1998 September 28, Roxanne Roberts, “Men's Bad Rep: Just a Bad Rap?”, in Washington Post, retrieved 13 Dec. 2008, page A1:
- "In my job, young hot things have been coming up to me for years," says Fletcher, the retired pilot. "You don't dip your pen in company ink."
- 2006 July 27, W. Blake Gray, “Ravens to Riches”, in San Francisco Chronicle, retrieved 13 Dec. 2008:
- It wasn't money that attracted his current wife, Madeleine Deininger, who started working for Ravenswood in 1985. . . . "We had the policy that you don't dip your pen in company ink. We stayed good friends for a long time," Peterson says.
Synonyms
edit- don't shit where you eat
- you don't fish off the company pier
- you don't get your nookie where you get your cookies
- don't get your honey where you make your money
- don't get your meat where you get your bread
- don't fish off the company dock
Translations
editone should avoid romantic or sexual relationships in the workplace
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