Tell It To Me Tuesday: "Dipping The Pen In Company Ink"

Does anyone watch the new show The Office? I love it. It has all the things I don't miss about working in an office, all rolled into one neat show. It also deals with many office issues that really apply to any line of work. Look, here comes one now!

Today I want to explore the topic of mixing business with pleasure. Now I'm not talking about a Corey Clark like scandal necessarily, just the touchy topic of what is and what is not appropriate that is going on between co-workers. Specifically, I'm referring to the boss/employee relationship. Depending on the size of your company, this might be a non issue. I bring it up because I work in a rather large school, yet my principal has taken it upon herself lately to hang out socially with a select few teachers quite a few times. Meanwhile she barely knows the rest of us by name.

My question to you is, is this a conflict of interest? Did you ever feel weird about relationships at work? Does becoming friends with a boss in a bigger company lend itself to preferential treatment or not?