In 2018, a customer secretly photographed Geoffrey Owens best known for playing Elvin on the Cosby Show working at a Trader Joe's in Clifton, New Jersey, and the images were published online in an attempt to "job-shame" him. Instead, he was able to get more work as an actor because of it.

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He went on to explain that most actors and indeed most entertainers are gig workers. For every a-lister many other actors work gig to gig and having steady work and a steady income that pays well is really hard because the field is so unpredictable. And many actors including many well know actors and artists have to have a secondary source of regular income between gigs and for most working entertainers it means getting a regular job and taking whatever roles you can get.

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Also, how you gonna shame a man for having a job? If you're earning your own money legally and not causing trouble for the world, then it's no damn business of mine where you work.

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It’s an entertainment industry thing. A person working retail making $50k a year will call an actor making $50k a year a loser because they only work in bit parts on tv or commercials and not marvel movies.