A few have anti-fraternization policies that ban inter-office dating altogether, and in the case where one person outranks the other, the relationship can automatically be considered sexual harassment. If you do decide to embrace inter-office romance, water cooler rendezvous should be kept to a minimum. It’s hard to avoid making eyes at one another from across the cubicle, but worth the effort as one entertainment-industry employee learned the hard way. Sure that no one was watching his affair with the secretary unfold, he made his film debut on the office surveillance cameras. Just remember, a sock on the office door won’t put a sock in office gossip.