LifeHiscost Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 Quote: Alice Van Ness/ABC News 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. "It's about respect for instructor, and those in class," yoga teacher Alice Van Ness explained to ABC News. 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. It began when a student (and Facebook employee) began texting during class. Total downward don't. 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----. Van Ness says she was fired by Plus One Health Management, the parent company that operates Facebook Fitness Center, just two weeks after the incident. In her termination letter, she says she was accused of "making a spectacle" of the texting student by stopping class to glare at her. "They sent me packing," Van Ness told Mercury News. "They didn't even want to hear my side of the story." (Plus One has yet to respond to media requests.) 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. "I just looked at her with this look of utter disbelief. Like, 'Really? You're going to do that right now?'" Van Ness told ABC News. "I don't believe there's anything that could be going on at Facebook that couldn't wait a half an hour." God blesses! Quote Lift Jesus up!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LifeHiscost Posted July 16, 2012 Author Share Posted July 16, 2012 The teacher of the class or the students who supposedly came to be taught? "This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away." God blesses! Quote Lift Jesus up!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cricket Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 Whoever pays the teacher is the one who should set the rules. The teacher agrees to teach according to the rules if he/she contracts with the employer to do the job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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