you don't dip your pen in company ink

English

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

one should avoid romantic or sexual relationships in the workplace

Chinese:
Mandarin: 兔子不吃窩邊草／兔子不吃窝边草 (zh) (tùzi bù chī wō biān cǎo)

Cantonese: 喺度食唔好喺度痾／喺度食唔好喺度疴 (hai² dou⁶ sik⁶ m⁴ hou² hai² dou⁶ o¹) (slang, vulgar)
Finnish: ei pidä syödä kuormasta (don't eat from the payload)
German: Bürofick bringt Unglück (vulgar)
Hungarian: házinyúlra nem lövünk
Portuguese: onde se ganha o pão, não se come a carne
Russian: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: donde tengas la olla no metas la polla (Spain, vulgar)
Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

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