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Last night's episode focused pretty heavily on office relationships with a minor story line about what happens when an office is broken into.

Here's what we learned:
If you're going to have surprise meetings in the stairwell after hours, make sure to lock the door after you leave.

Don't let your fiance's ex cause you to question your relationship.

Letting out the air in someone's tires to get their attention doesn't work unless they are going to see the car within the next few minutes.

Feel free to add your own lessons in the comments.

So last night's episode of The Office taught us all about babies and baby showers.

Here are some quick take away points:

It's polite to hold showers at work, but it's really only necessary if an employee or their spouse is the one having the baby. No need to hold a shower for a employee's ex.

Super expensive strollers that promise various safety features probably hold up under normal circumstances. Being dragged behind a car however may cause damage.

I can't say for sure, but I'd be willing to bet money that practicing for a baby's delivery by birthing a watermelon (even one that is coated in butter to make it more realistic) probably won't prepare you for the actual event.

I'm sure I'm missing a bunch of other good lessons, but those are the three that really struck me. Feel free to leave your lessons in the comments.

Welcome back to another wonderful season of Office recaps that highlight the real life lessons we learn from the show.

Last night's season premiere was a full hour, but I'm going to try to keep this week's lessons brief.

I think the first take away point is company weight loss challenges, while being a good idea at heart, probably should have some guidelines. You'll want to make sure employees actually eat food (and not tape worms) so they don't pass out in the office. That could cause all kinds of liability issues.

Also, Holly showed us it's probably a bad plan to joke about sexual orientation and mental retardation in the office. It could just lead to all sorts of uncomfortable situations.

Lastly, if you ever have reason to grovel at the feet of former employees, don't blame your actions on your inability to fully process Sept. 11.

I'm sure there were a ton more lessons from the episode, so feel free to leave a few things you learned in the comments section!

If you didn't catch the story in this morning's paper about the professor at York College who teaches ethics classes based on examples from The Office, go check it out now.

And then for fun, take this quiz to find out which character from the show you are most like.

Don't forget to check back tomorrow afternoon for recaps and lessons learned from tonight's season premiere. You can catch up on last season here.

I'm super excited for The Office to come back tomorrow. Here's a quick preview trailer to get you as excited as me.

Don't forget to check back Friday for the return of "Everything I know about work I learned from Jim Halpert." You can check for last season's recaps here.

First and foremost, major props to the Office writers for throwing in a plug for Allentown. I love my hometown representing even if it's only where Jan is going for Lamaze class.

Let's get right down to what we learned this week. Because the episode was an hour long, we've got double the amount of lessons.

Lesson one: Do not leave your cell phone setting on your desk or you may find that all of your calls are being transfered to someone else's phone.

Side note: The baby bump is the reason we only see Angela from her shoulders up because there's no storyline written in for her pregnancy.

Jim Halpert was successful this week, for once acting like a real businessman and sealing a sales deal on the golf course.

But before we get to his overwhelming success, let's take a quick look at Michael's inept struggles.