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Proverb: Don’t fish off the company pier
Keep your work and private lives separate; in other words, don’t fish off the company pier.
We all know we don’t keep every fish we catch.
Catch and release in the company pond is not a good idea because some fish come back to bite you.
Don’t fish off the company pier is a modern-day proverb which means don’t date your coworkers. Keep your work and private lives separate.
I find this proverb a little funny.
It is common for men and women to meet and fall in love at work in Japan.
Most times, everything goes smoothly, and people live happily ever after.
However, sometimes when coworkers date, things do not go smoothly; the couple breaks up.
Then what happens? Well, they have to go to work every day and see a person that they do not like or perhaps even despise.
This can cause trouble in the office.
For this reason, I have always followed the maxim don’t fish off the company pier.
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