Posted on 09/04/2018 10:08:54 AM PDT by SMGFan
The former "Cosby Show" actor job-shamed by some media outlets over the weekend with photos showing him working at a Trader Joe's in New Jersey to make ends meet, said Tuesday he was so upset that he quit his job. Geoffrey Owens
"I was really devastated," Geoffrey Owens, who lives in Montclair, said during an interview on Good Morning America.
But Owens said the outpouring of support he received on social media from the entertainment industry and beyond helped him through it.
"The period of devastation was so short because so shortly after that, the responses my wife and I started to read - literally all over the world ... fortunately, the shame part didn't last very long." "It hurt, but then, it's amazing," he said.
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Never quit your current job, until you have accepted your next job.
Still, what did he do with the money he earned from the cosby show? Unless cosby was the only one really well paid.
I don’t see why he was ashamed.
The vast majority of people said good for him for working an honest job.
unless the public is showing up to see you at your job. And you are being mocked.
Gofundme account in 5...4...3..
Bagging groceries is fine. Honorable work. But he taught acting at Yale. Any employer might hold that against him.
The funny things people will do over pride.
If you go back to shows like this...Little House on the Prairie...etc, most of the folks never made that much.
Honest work - no shame
At least he’s working. Generally when you work on a very famous tv show it is very hard to get other work - for some reason, the typecasting stuff seems to harden into stone. I don’t get it but that’s the business. To me, talent is talent. Best of luck to him; social media is evil.
I cannot stand when anyone is looked down upon for honest work. I don’t care where it is! One of my biggest pet peeves. Good for him.
Some people make fun of folks who make an honest living doing real work. Especially if those folks spent any time in their youth in the entertainment industry, the one filled with pretentious drug and alcohol addled empty skulls, perverts of the first order, and an employment rate in the sub one percent level. Considering the number of such who end up dead with a needle in their arm, or turning tricks in some Los Angeles alley way, I’d say the ones who come out of it intact and earning a living ought to be applauded.
To all the Mr.Penii out there....stay zipped up and stop popping out where you're not wanted.
Read down the article - he SAYS he quit because of job shaming but Tyler Perry offered him a long term acting gig.
And the ONLY reason this is being called “job shaming” and a media “problem” is because Fox News ran the story.
Whine, whine, whine.
This expression “whatever-shamed” has gotten very annoying
It’s past time for “stupid shaming”.
Should have quit acting.
He said that any acting job he got since the end of “Cosby” has lasted no longer than 10 weeks. It’s good that he wants to work in his craft, but what is he supposed to do the rest of the time? He found the answer. Why anyone would shame him for that is beyond me. Probably social media junkies with too much time on their hands.
He said that his acting gigs usually lasted less than 10 weeks per gig, so he had to work a second job. Trader Joe’s let him have a flexible schedule so he could work as an actor, make auditions, etc.
I met more than one person in the entertainment field in NY who worked multiple jobs since the gigs were short term. He was very straight-forward on his interview, didn’t ask the lady to post the photo, didn’t ask for the notoriety.
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