You don't dip your pen in company ink

Meaning: Romantic entanglements with colleagues create workplace conflicts and jeopardize professional reputation.

Origin: Workplace advice against romance with a coworker, drawn from the days of dip pens and inkwells. Its first use hasn't been traced.

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