Yoga Instructor Fired For Banning Facebook During Yoga Class … At Facebook

Telling Facebook employees to stay off Facebook is not a good way to keep a job at Facebook, as yoga instructor Alice Van Ness recently found out.

Telling Facebook employees to stay off Facebook is not a good way to keep a job at Facebook, as yoga instructor Alice Van Ness recently found out.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported that Van Ness was dismissed by fitness contractor Plus One Health Management after objecting to one of her students checking her phone twice during a class at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.

Van Ness told the Chronicle her class at Facebook was just beginning when she noticed a student in the front row using a cell phone, after which she asked the entire class to shut their devices off.

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