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

Everything else aside western toilets aren't safe for people to stand on, they could slip in or fall and hurt themselves or break the toilet seat. The manager really needs to point out the OH&S concerns to do their duty by the employee and keep them safe.

You can’t catch anything from a toilet seat unless the skin of your arse cheeks is actually broken!

I don't know how you're sitting on toilets but my bum cheeks touch the toilet seat and they are clean. People's shoes can step in all sorts of things, unlike my bum cheeks which I don't drag along the ground.

I have dodgy knees since an episode of inflammatory anrthritis 6 years ago and am physically unable to squat/get down on my haunches. I have never suffered from constipation.

It is unhygenic and can break a toilet seat and using the ''culture'' label does not make all those issues vanish

I don’t think I’ve sat on a toilet seat in about 10 years that’s not in my house

We have signs on the toilet doors at work. Also signs to advise not to stuff the sanitary bins with loo roll.
It's a big problem.

We had this in places I have worked. When flagged to facilities management, they put signs on the back of toilet doors saying it was not to be done. Also, in pictorial language with a cross through a picture and a tick on the other. That way no one is singling colleagues out. It gives them the message to stop. Should it continue, and it did in one place, then emails were sent around to everyone saying it was noted that this practice was continuing and to cease and it is a management problem and der to desist and will be considered a HR issue - how I don’t know as there are no cameras in loo’s. Anyway, that fixed it.

A simple sign will hopefully solve the issue. It’s not racist, it’s simply a safely issue. She will likely get injured or break the toilet (very embarrassing). Or potentially cause someone else to get injured. Western toilets are designed to sit on, not have feet on the seat/bowl.

Public to me is any toilet that's not in someone's home (ie someone I personally know in some regard)

Just put some flash in there so she can clean up after she's been.

I've never sat on a public toilet seat, that's disgusting! Hover all the way. Squatting is actually the 'right' way to go to the toilet, modern western toilets are the reason so many people have bowel issues because it's not the natural way to go to the toilet. A bidet is also a much more hygienic way to clean yourself if you think about it. I remember a comedian saying if you had a piece of shit on your arm would you really be ok to wipe it off with a dry piece of paper, I thought he had a really good point!

Could a squatty potty stool be provided?

It really isn't. Our very large multicultural company replaced several toilet seats and tried to source the strongest they could but in the end did have to put up notices. The person who snapped the seats surely knew but left it to others to report to facilities. Our company is proud of its diversity and the employees especially love when people bring in food when celebrating festivals and we have world food day. There's truly nothing racist about it. If anything could have been done to mitigate the damage it definitely would have been.

yes people from other cultures are gross and smelly.

But you are truly disgusting

All over the world I expect, however the women is in the UK.so likely she picked it up here If she has a veruca or fungal foot infection.

Um, I expect most people born and brought up in the UK never encountered a squat toilet until the day they did. I certainly didn't know they existed until I saw one. Having seen one it's pretty obvious how they should be used.

I've no idea about the situation in this country.

In the Soviet Union, Soviets from the countryside tended to have 'field toilets' - perfectly clean holes in the ground - in brick or wooden sheds - at home, but used the toilets western style in the student residence.

Those who were unwilling to change their stance tended to come from developing countries. (For those who missed my previous post, the cubicle walls and doors in the student hostel didn't reach to the ceiling, so you'd get heads bobbing up and down. This was problematic when certain men refused to go up a floor to use the gents.)

In former Yugoslavia, people who lived in the countryside had field toilets at home but adapted to use western toilets as we would, where they were available.

But it depends on your definition of "public". I would hover on genuinely public toilets at concerts, cinemas, on trains etc. but I don't at college or work.

What do squatters in work place toilets do at home? Do they have different type of toilets installed?

I never sit on a public toilet seat, always hover. This wouldn't bother me in the slightest as I can't stand the thought of someone's arse being on there either.

You must have thighs of steel. Especially if it's a tricky Wordle!

I have relaxed in my middle years, though there is always that moment of ick when a seat proves to be unusually warm or (argh!) wet!

How WOULDN'T it affect you if you needed to use the toilet?
I suppose you hover?

You're not the only one, there are plenty of people around who have no understanding of germ theory, microbiology or the immune system and so are terrified of loo seats.

Hover over, maybe..but stand on the seats?!