After many hours of searching for a loophole…

It took far longer than you had hoped, but you found a couple of clauses that strung together a way in which you could access this android, basically for free. They read:

“Section 115.867.5309. Employee Use

Under Steele Corp definition of “employee”, (S10.00 ş 00) employee partial compensation as substitute of the annual package may include complementary leasing of a Steele Tech All In One (AI-O) assistant model, in lieu of 20% of the aforementioned compensation package’s income, 50,000 S, whichever is greater.”

And:

“Section 10.00.00. Employee requirements

Employees must provide adequate documentation for working in their respective planet, country, state, etc. to provide hiring team historical records, clean criminal history. Minimum age for employees is 21. as is followed pursuant to Terran Union Code. Applications found on the holonet resource page found here.”

You wipe your brow as you put the pieces together. Admittedly, it took you more time than you’d like to admit, given you didn’t want Mary to assist you with this particular task. Then again, it’s summer, and you’ve still a couple weeks to university — you have nothing but time to spend, and THIS was important.

You’d still have to wait three years, but who’s honestly going to sift through hundreds of sections of terms and conditions, just to change employment and compensation status? Set on taking this course of action, you hop offline, falling to sleep with a smile and the sense of a well earned rest.