After the meetings with Mary were finished, both Max and Nico returned to Creeping Darkness to keep themselves close to the developing population base of the new ship. Absolution was stable and had been for quite some time, so there was no real need to second guess anything that the Board of Directors was doing there, but Creeping Darkness just had Sylvie, who had never dealt with a civilian population before.
The fact that there hadn't been any major issues yet was something akin to a miracle, and Max fully expected that there would be a major blowup soon, as someone protested either the job they were given, or the fact that they were expected to work at all.
There were always layabouts in the group, and most Reaver Companies would have the new arrivals look for jobs on their own, which would give them plentiful time on the basic allowance before anyone caught on and realized that they weren't even looking for work.