Advice needed (not looking for legal advice, just wisdom from those with more experience)
Manager (who laid me off) is offering me 20 hrs a week, working from home, packaging boxes that we ship out.
I feel almost as if saying no to this would hurt my job once this is all over and I would be getting an invite to get back to my normal work.. I live in a tiny studio apartment with one other person, 2 dogs, and a cat. Health issues aside (bringing boxes into my home that a bunch of people, who I know don't really take any Coronavirus precautions, I don't have the physical space to reasonably work from home, nor do I have what I'd need to print their shipping labels (I don't have a working computer to access their system).
I'm more than willing to work my job. And this is part of the job (when there is down time, seasoned workers do this on the office. I haven't even been trained on it yet)... But I don't think they can expect me to do this remotely. Am I in the wrong of I decline? I also wonder if this will hurt my unemployment, which I'm still trying to get set up. I know if I take it, it will lower my weekly unemployment, but there's a diminishing return. Where I won't be able to collect any based on the income I'd be bringing in, but it would still only be half of what I was making. But if I decline, will I be screwed when it comes to unemployment all together?