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July 16, 2012 7:46 AM Subscribe
Alice the Yoga Teacher: fired for attempting to teach yoga in a yoga class.
This post was deleted for the following reason: This is basically only more than a single link blog op ed because it concerns facebook. I am sorry for the yoga teacher but this is not a great post for MetaFilter. -- jessamyn
Some people need to realize that the hyper-literal defense "You told me not to say anything. So, I didn't say anything. And even though I did everything else I could do to convey a message, I still didn't violate your rule. So, it's unfair to punish me." doesn't cut it.
I wonder how the yoga teacher feels when a bank teller, or anyone else, sticks to equally literal interpretations of rules in defiance of her preferences.
posted by oddman at 7:54 AM on July 16, 2012 [1 favorite]
I wonder how the yoga teacher feels when a bank teller, or anyone else, sticks to equally literal interpretations of rules in defiance of her preferences.
posted by oddman at 7:54 AM on July 16, 2012 [1 favorite]
So was she explicitly fired for the phone incident? She doesn't actually say.
posted by Think_Long at 7:54 AM on July 16, 2012
posted by Think_Long at 7:54 AM on July 16, 2012
This is not the emergency room, it's just Facebook.
It's actually been proven (based on results from several peer-reviewed studies) that, for 98% of US corporations, including Facebook, the Earth will Literally Stop Rotating On Its Axis if deadlines real or artificial are not met.
So, yeah, it's NOT the emergency room, it's human civilization itself.
posted by gagglezoomer at 7:54 AM on July 16, 2012
It's actually been proven (based on results from several peer-reviewed studies) that, for 98% of US corporations, including Facebook, the Earth will Literally Stop Rotating On Its Axis if deadlines real or artificial are not met.
So, yeah, it's NOT the emergency room, it's human civilization itself.
posted by gagglezoomer at 7:54 AM on July 16, 2012
"Facebook and all these smart phones have invaded our lives and now we are addicted to being connected via technology, but at what cost? What are we afraid of missing online? Why can’t anyone wait for an answer anymore?"
This is not a new thing.
posted by artof.mulata at 7:54 AM on July 16, 2012 [1 favorite]
This is not a new thing.
posted by artof.mulata at 7:54 AM on July 16, 2012 [1 favorite]
It's not like she was working at an ashram.
posted by The 10th Regiment of Foot at 7:54 AM on July 16, 2012
posted by The 10th Regiment of Foot at 7:54 AM on July 16, 2012
Well, the thing that really gets me about this story is how the student was so insecure about simply being "glared at" that it just HAD to be reported.
posted by darkstar at 7:54 AM on July 16, 2012
posted by darkstar at 7:54 AM on July 16, 2012
yoga + facebook + iphone + "I was fired for only!" = the perfect nexus of stupid
posted by DU at 7:56 AM on July 16, 2012 [3 favorites]
posted by DU at 7:56 AM on July 16, 2012 [3 favorites]
Well, the thing that really gets me about this story is how the student was so insecure about simply being "glared at" that it just HAD to be reported.
I expect no different from a Facebook employee.
posted by adamdschneider at 7:56 AM on July 16, 2012 [1 favorite]
I expect no different from a Facebook employee.
posted by adamdschneider at 7:56 AM on July 16, 2012 [1 favorite]
I'm sure my face said it all. "Really? Your email is more important than understanding your body?"
According to my boss, and by extension my mortgage company, not answering one of her phone calls during work hours is indeed more important that "understanding [my] body," which is a pretty high falutin' phrase to use about a lunch time yoga class anyway.
Also, I loved this part:
I had been previously asked by management to just let the students do whatever they wanted. Come in late, leave early, answer emails, come in during class to get weights, take photos for the newsletter, whatever came up I was told to just say YES. Which is why on this day I didn't actually say anything to this student. I just looked at her with utter disbelief.
I'm not sure how important understanding your body is if you can't actually understand, like, directives from your employer.
posted by OmieWise at 7:57 AM on July 16, 2012 [7 favorites]
According to my boss, and by extension my mortgage company, not answering one of her phone calls during work hours is indeed more important that "understanding [my] body," which is a pretty high falutin' phrase to use about a lunch time yoga class anyway.
Also, I loved this part:
I had been previously asked by management to just let the students do whatever they wanted. Come in late, leave early, answer emails, come in during class to get weights, take photos for the newsletter, whatever came up I was told to just say YES. Which is why on this day I didn't actually say anything to this student. I just looked at her with utter disbelief.
I'm not sure how important understanding your body is if you can't actually understand, like, directives from your employer.
posted by OmieWise at 7:57 AM on July 16, 2012 [7 favorites]
Maybe the teacher should learn to just let things go next time?
posted by The 10th Regiment of Foot at 7:58 AM on July 16, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by The 10th Regiment of Foot at 7:58 AM on July 16, 2012 [1 favorite]
This is the hill she wants to die on?
posted by squorch at 7:58 AM on July 16, 2012 [4 favorites]
posted by squorch at 7:58 AM on July 16, 2012 [4 favorites]
If she was generally instructed, by the persons hiring her to run this CASUAL lunch-hour yoga class for employees, to not be a dick to persons who are, after all at WORK and so may have other things going on at the time, and then proceeded to be a dick to one of the persons attending the class (note I do not say student, because these persons are not students, they are attendees) then yeah, fire her dick ass. She should not need to be told once, and yet told she was, and still had to be a dick to her clients.
posted by BigLankyBastard at 7:59 AM on July 16, 2012 [2 favorites]
posted by BigLankyBastard at 7:59 AM on July 16, 2012 [2 favorites]
I'll admit that because one of the dumbest and most destructive people I know is a yoga teacher (The destructive behavior comes directly from the new agey yoga bullshit. Home birth without adequate supervision, no vaccinations, no use of the microwave but smoking is fine, etc.), and talks in this kind of nonsensical BS, and that might be coloring my response here.
posted by OmieWise at 8:00 AM on July 16, 2012
posted by OmieWise at 8:00 AM on July 16, 2012
I once had to pull over on the side of the road to answer a phone call from a prospective employer, who HAD TO KNOW IF I ACCEPTED THE JOB RIGHT THIS MINUTE AND IF I DIDN'T ANSWER I WOULD NOT GET THE JOB. So, yes, sometimes you do need to check your messages at inopportune times.
That being said, if the lady with the phone was really anticipating an important message, she should not have gone to a yoga class.
posted by LN at 8:01 AM on July 16, 2012
That being said, if the lady with the phone was really anticipating an important message, she should not have gone to a yoga class.
posted by LN at 8:01 AM on July 16, 2012
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