I think so, yes - my impression is that as a resident he's still being paid basically a student's salary. As chief resident, he'd be promoted to a real doctor's paycheck.
ah, I see. Of course, I think that it's stupid to quit before the job is confirmed, but if he was in denial and told her to, she's stuck. Poor Joan.
She's also in a pickle for finding a new job. She'll have to put Sterling Cooper as her last employer and if they check her references, they'll get John the male secretary and he will slam her.
Speaking of, it was interesting to see the rampant hostility towards him. She kept it pretty veiled for a while. I felt the foreshadowing with the "DONT call me" line.
OH, and I forgot to mention. My DH's late grandmother was Conrad Hilton's personal secretary all through the '60s, so the scenes where she called Don and came in during the meeting was very cool for us.
Scrappy that is SO COOL!!!
Jon & Jessica that was my theory exactly. That is,
assy doctor husband kills himself.
Hee! Oh, Scrappy, that's amazing to see a character who could have been a relative!
I thought Grampa Eugene's special status for Sally and near-total disdain for Bobby said a lot for how Betty's brother William turned out.
I wonder if Betty is one of those women who looooove babies, and don't really have much interest in older children?
Wow, that episode had everything. They got the subtle reference in to the JFK assassination, Joan being The Coolest Woman Alive, a great Peggy/Joan scene that had all kinds of history but didn't have to spell it out, Good Daddy Don, Bad Mommy Betty, Roger being a hilariously snarky bastard, mayhem, product placement, Peggy falling into Pete's arms, and the immortal line: "He'll never golf again."
Roger being a hilariously snarky bastard
OMG, his "foot in the door" line was evil but hilarious.
I just realized what all those scenes between Joan and Peggy and Don reminded me of. It was Buffy getting the Class Protector Award. Everybody wanted to let Joan know how valued she is.
