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Help! She's standing on the toilet seat!!

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Crazyworksituatio · 19/03/2025 20:35

Help! I've no idea how to deal with this without offending. Since a new female employee has started working with us there are shoe prints on toilet seat. It's a corporate office but only a few females use this toilet so obvious who the culprit is. The lady is from India and new to country. She's very professional and I think this is a cultural difference but I'm horrified she thinks this is ok? What would you do??

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livelovelough24 · 19/03/2025 20:44

Yes, this is definitely a cultural thing, but it should be not allowed. Where I live, we have signs all over the place showing that you are not to stand on the seat, that is not what it it designed for.

frillygillymilly · 19/03/2025 20:44

Neither are arses. Wipe it or hover?

A butt cheek is not the same as the bottom of the shoe & this may not apply to you but most people's a-holes will fit in the seat hole...

Why can't the woman standing on the seat wipe after herself?

andyouwillknowusbythetrailofdead · 19/03/2025 20:44

No one has caught an illness through the skin on their bum cheeks. It's not gross, it's just culturally different.

Hazel665 · 19/03/2025 20:43

I worked in Singapore for a while. Notices about this on the door of every ladies' loo in every office building.

greenbirds · 19/03/2025 20:42

This is a common problem in our student residences and came to our attention after repeated toilet seat breakages.

The solution was to buy signs making it clear that the toilets should be used to sit on, not squat on. They are easy to find online and save having an embarrassing conversation with your colleague.

Wrongsideofpennines · 19/03/2025 20:42

MagicPharmacist · 19/03/2025 20:35

Why would you do or say anything? How does this affect you?

Toilet seats are not designed to be stood on so it risks damaging the seat. The woman could then fall and be injured or there is a nice hairline crack in the seat ready waiting to trap your bum the next time you sit down.

I've seen signs like this before in university toilets. I'd put them up in all the toilets.

maddening · 19/03/2025 20:42

MagicPharmacist · 19/03/2025 20:35

Why would you do or say anything? How does this affect you?

I would not want to be using a toilet that has outdoor shoes on the seat, or even has had bare feet on - varucas and foot fungus!

Crazyworksituatio · 19/03/2025 20:42

MagicPharmacist · 19/03/2025 20:35

Why would you do or say anything? How does this affect you?

Really do you not think this is unhygienic? Not being sarcastic, I'm just interested to understand the viewpoint where this is a reasonable thing to do for the next user of the toilet.

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Tikeahulilly · 19/03/2025 20:40

That's gross. Get some signs and some wipes

Eeew the things I probably walk through on my commute are MUCH worse than my freshly washed bottom cheeks on a loo seat.

So gross..

PussInBin20 · 19/03/2025 20:39

Someone at my DH’s work did this, but a male who promptly broke it!

MagicPharmacist · 19/03/2025 20:38

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 19/03/2025 20:36

Hygiene? Shoe soles are not clean.

Neither are arses. Wipe it or hover?

Littletreefrog · 19/03/2025 20:38

Lots of places have signs advising with photos that standing on the seat is not allowed. Get some of them but put in to ALL toilets not just the ones she is using.

PaintDecisions · 19/03/2025 20:38

Just put some signs up. It's pretty common in multi cultural workplaces.

You'll find examples online.

AnotherDelphinium · 19/03/2025 20:37

MagicPharmacist · 19/03/2025 20:35

Why would you do or say anything? How does this affect you?

Because you’re putting your bare skin where somewhere has stood with outdoor shoes?!?

OP, yes I would speak to her and suggest she lift the seat if she wishes to squat on the bowl.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 19/03/2025 20:36

MagicPharmacist · 19/03/2025 20:35

Why would you do or say anything? How does this affect you?

Hygiene? Shoe soles are not clean.

GuevarasBeret · 19/03/2025 20:36

Put a sign up, and provide seat wipes?

Bristollocalknowledge · 19/03/2025 20:36

You get signs to stick up in toilets for this reason. University use them.

MagicPharmacist · 19/03/2025 20:35

Why would you do or say anything? How does this affect you?

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