you don't dip your pen in company ink
English
Alternative forms
- 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
you don't dip your pen in company ink
- One should avoid romantic relationships in the workplace.
- 1998, Roxanne Roberts, "Men's Bad Rep: Just a Bad Rap?," Washington Post, 28 Sep., p. A1 (retrieved 13 Dec. 2008):
- "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, W. Blake Gray, "Ravens to Riches," San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Jul. (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
- 1998, Roxanne Roberts, "Men's Bad Rep: Just a Bad Rap?," Washington Post, 28 Sep., p. A1 (retrieved 13 Dec. 2008):
Synonyms
- 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