Halt! Don’t Go There! Don’t Cheat With A Co-Worker

Word to the wise, Don’t screw  around where you work. In other words: Please think carefully before you let your office-mate dip his pen in your ink well. He or she is someone you will have to see every single day, after all, and behave professionally in front of from 9-to-5. If you’re convinced you’re in love and you two will go the distance, that’s one thing. (And I still might hold off till one of you get transferred to a different department.) But going out to, say, the bar, after work, getting wasted on shots to celebrate the end of a tough week, and then taking your co-worker to hotel or backseat of a car ? Probably a terrible idea. Probably not worth the potential awkwardness, co-workers using the affair for extortion, getting FIRED, or depending on your company position, a possible lawsuit.