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* In "Out of Town", how can Don remember the events surrounding his birth when he either wasn't there or was a newborn baby?
** I assume he was imagining it.
* Much is made of the fact that Don does not have a "contract". However, early in the series (at least two years before he meets Conrad Hilton, who forces the issue) Don is made a partner with 12.5% of the firm. The paperwork surrounding this share offering/grant is a de facto contract, regardless of anything else associated with Don's work.
** When Cooper offers Don the partnership, Don explicitly says "no contract" and Cooper assures him that he won't ask him to sign one. The share offering is more a financial transaction than anything else...Don's job at the agency remained essentially the same.
** The references throughout the series to "a contract" refer to a ''no compete'' contract, which is a specific type of contract that binds you to a specific firm for a set period. If you quit that firm -- even for something justifiable -- you can't work at any competitor for X number of years (The term of the contract), which means that you're functionally out of a job for that time period unless you go far enough away to not be in competition anymore or you take a job in a completely separate field. Since Sterling Cooper is a Big Deal with at least one nation-wide campaign they can argue that any ad agency anywhere in the US is a competitor, so anybody who they have on contract can't work in marketing anywhere else in the country for the rest of their term. Don's refusal to accept a contract is a power play, since if at any time he decides to leave SC he can get a job at another company and there's no way for them to stop him. Later, after Don was forced into signing a contract, this is why the key part of the whole crew leaving PPL to form SCDP was having Lane fire them all. Since being fired terminated all of their contracts they are allowed to compete, whereas if they had just quit they would have needed to sit at home and wait for their contracts to run out before they could start their new company.
* At the end of Season 3 the senior staff of Sterling Cooper take all of the documentation and physical artifacts from their accounts out of the office, effectively ''stealing their own company''. You really have to wonder if such a thing would be legal, or even possible.
** This may not be 100% accurate, but, seeing as Sterling-Cooper is a partnership and not a publicly traded company, the partners have every right to take any equipment and office supplies for themselves. They do own them, after all. This would be different in a publicly traded corporation, where all things belong to the company, not the investors.
** All the critical documentation would have been technically the property of the clients, meaning that so long as the staff had proof that the clients had requested to transfer their business from Sterling-Cooper to the fledgeling SCDP, and that Lane had authorized them to be in the building and take whatever supplies they needed for free, they'd have been in the clear from a legal standpoint. The only one in any real potential trouble would have been Lane, as PPL could have sued him for loss of earnings, but they probably didn't want the trouble of a cross-border lawsuit.
* It's incredible that none of Don's many partners ever came forward with a lovechild, or even a claim.
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* In "Out of Town", how can Don remember the events surrounding his birth when he either wasn't there or was a newborn baby?
** I assume he was imagining it.
* Much is made of the fact that Don does not have a "contract". However, early in the series (at least two years before he meets Conrad Hilton, who forces the issue) Don is made a partner with 12.5% of the firm. The paperwork surrounding this share offering/grant is a de facto contract, regardless of anything else associated with Don's work.
** When Cooper offers Don the partnership, Don explicitly says "no contract" and Cooper assures him that he won't ask him to sign one. The share offering is more a financial transaction than anything else...Don's job at the agency remained essentially the same.
** The references throughout the series to "a contract" refer to a ''no compete'' contract, which is a specific type of contract that binds you to a specific firm for a set period. If you quit that firm -- even for something justifiable -- you can't work at any competitor for X number of years (The term of the contract), which means that you're functionally out of a job for that time period unless you go far enough away to not be in competition anymore or you take a job in a completely separate field. Since Sterling Cooper is a Big Deal with at least one nation-wide campaign they can argue that any ad agency anywhere in the US is a competitor, so anybody who they have on contract can't work in marketing anywhere else in the country for the rest of their term. Don's refusal to accept a contract is a power play, since if at any time he decides to leave SC he can get a job at another company and there's no way for them to stop him. Later, after Don was forced into signing a contract, this is why the key part of the whole crew leaving PPL to form SCDP was having Lane fire them all. Since being fired terminated all of their contracts they are allowed to compete, whereas if they had just quit they would have needed to sit at home and wait for their contracts to run out before they could start their new company.
* At the end of Season 3 the senior staff of Sterling Cooper take all of the documentation and physical artifacts from their accounts out of the office, effectively ''stealing their own company''. You really have to wonder if such a thing would be legal, or even possible.
** This may not be 100% accurate, but, seeing as Sterling-Cooper is a partnership and not a publicly traded company, the partners have every right to take any equipment and office supplies for themselves. They do own them, after all. This would be different in a publicly traded corporation, where all things belong to the company, not the investors.
** All the critical documentation would have been technically the property of the clients, meaning that so long as the staff had proof that the clients had requested to transfer their business from Sterling-Cooper to the fledgeling SCDP, and that Lane had authorized them to be in the building and take whatever supplies they needed for free, they'd have been in the clear from a legal standpoint. The only one in any real potential trouble would have been Lane, as PPL could have sued him for loss of earnings, but they probably didn't want the trouble of a cross-border lawsuit.
* It's incredible that none of Don's many partners ever came forward with a lovechild, or even a claim.
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* How exactly is Duck able to find out all about him? The college details and his actual position at BBM I get (all that would take is a couple of phone calls to contacts willing and able to check the relevant paperwork), but how is he able to find out that he's using a false name and that he's actually from West Virginia? And didn't anyone at SCDP think to do any background research when they hired him, or rather after he turned up claiming to have been hired?
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* How exactly is Duck able to find out all about him? The college details and his actual position at BBM BBH I get (all that would take is a couple of phone calls to contacts willing and able to check the relevant paperwork), but how is he able to find out that he's using a false name and that he's actually from West Virginia? And didn't anyone at SCDP think to do any background research when they hired him, or rather after he turned up claiming to have been hired?
