Yoga teacher fired for looking at texting student funny

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Ever had your phone ring in a yoga class? It's like you just entered the prom naked. In a world wired for constant communication, yoga class is one of the last places where pings, rings, and vibrations are grounds for reproach.

'Cause everybody wants to hear your phone and see you texting while trying to find balance.

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Up until a few weeks ago, Van Ness taught yoga to Facebook employees at the company's Bay Area campus. But an etiquette conflict between the ancient practice and the modern world changed all that, she said.

Why am I not surprised that this involves Facebook?

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It began when a student (and Facebook employee) began texting during class.

How do you even do that? Isn't it kind of hard to do yoga and text at the same time?

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Van Ness claimed she gave a "disapproving look," elsewhere described as a "stink-eye." When the unidentified employee left class to finish her text and later complained about the bad vibes coming from the teacher, Karma was a b----.

The teacher's being meen to me! She looked at me disapprovingly when all I was doing was being disruptive! It's not fair!!!!!11!

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In her termination letter, she says she was accused of "making a spectacle" of the texting student by stopping class to glare at her.

Thou shalt not embarrass clueless cell phone addicts. It's in the Bible.

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"They sent me packing," Van Ness told Mercury News. "They didn't even want to hear my side of the story."

Of course not. That would make the student look dumber than she already is. And that might hurt her feelings and make people on the Internets laugh at her!

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Here's her side of the story: Van Ness, like most instructors, requests students turn off their phones before class. So when she was demonstrating a difficult 'half moon pose' for students, she was stunned that one of them would simultaneously be using their phone.

This is the half moon pose:

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How the fuck do you text while doing that?

I'm with the teacher on this. That student needs to grow a thicker skin, because if you can be that upset by being looked at, you've got problems.

Lady Anne wrote:

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How the fuck do you text while doing that?

Um. She has one whole hand free? I could text during that.

Jay/Cris wrote:

Lady Anne wrote:

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How the fuck do you text while doing that?

Um. She has one whole hand free? I could text during that.

You guys still use your hands for TXT-ing? That's like a baby's toy.

Jay/Cris wrote:

Lady Anne wrote:

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How the fuck do you text while doing that?

Um. She has one whole hand free? I could text during that.

So the question should be "How do you text while doing that without looking like a tool?" (Answer: Apparently, you can't)

WD40 wrote:

Jay/Cris wrote:

Lady Anne wrote:

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How the fuck do you text while doing that?

Um. She has one whole hand free? I could text during that.

You guys still use your hands for TXT-ing? That's like a baby's toy.

Oh, I'm sorry, I haven't yet mastered Telekinesis. I'm still stuck on rewriting squirrel DNA into the perfect killing machine.

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Jay/Cris wrote:

Lady Anne wrote:

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How the fuck do you text while doing that?

Um. She has one whole hand free? I could text during that.

So the question should be "How do you text while doing that without looking like a tool?" (Answer: Apparently, you can't)

There's no way to do that in without looking like a tool in the first place, so I don't see what the problem is.