Student Texting In Yoga Class Leads to Yoga Teacher Getting Fired

Having your phone go off in the middle of class is embarrassing enough. But when this student's spohen went off, it ended up costing the instructor her job!

In California, a yoga teacher was fired for giving a student a "dirty look," after the student insisted on texting in the middle of yoga class.

Alice Van Ness, 35, has been teaching yoga since 2006. As a courtesy, as class begins she says she politely asks students to turn off their phones. But while teaching at the Facebook Fitness Center last month, the northern California native said one student -- who she says had been texting at the beginning of class – began using her phone while she was demonstrating the difficult half moon pose.

"When she picked up her phone, I was surprised," Van Ness told ABC News. "I didn't know what to say. I just looked at her with this look of utter disbelief. Like, 'Really? You're going to do that right now?'"

That look of disapproval cost Van Ness her job with Plus One Health Management, the company that operates the gym out of Facebook's Menlo Park, Calif., offices. Two weeks after the incident, Van Ness was dismissed by the company.

OK, let's look past the absurdity of someone getting fired just for looking at a person the wrong way. People have become so self-absorbed and obsessed with their Facebook or Twitter or text messages that they can't be bothered to turn off their phones for the sake of common courtesy. Even if you work for a technology-centric company like Facebook, turning off your phone for just one hour is not going to kill you.

This whole mess could have been avoided if this selfish little brat of a student would've just quietly stepped outside and handle her stuff outside instead of disrupting the class with it. But no, that would have been common sense. And as we've seen plenty of times before, common sense is pretty much non-existent these days.