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

You're not the only one, but you are quite loopy and irrational to do so. Unless you have open weeping sores on the backs of your thighs you are not doing anything unhygienic if you sit on a loo seat. The skin is a highly evolved protective barrier if it's healthy and unbroken. Unless you are using the loo on the way to some kind of cat yoga session where you are learning to lick the backs of your legs, you don't need to hover.

Hoverers do often leave wee splashes on the seat for the next person to clear up though.

I’m amazed at the number of people who sit on public loos! Am I the only one who hovers on loo seats that are not my own?

We have signs in our toilets telling people not to stand on the seat.
we also have a lot of Indian employees.

No they don't. Total fabrication. Reported.

Gatwick and Stanstead airports have signs in every toilet telling people not to squat on the seats.

Same!

I would just talk to her about it tbh. Kindly, but firmly. If she wants to take a shit in a hole somewhere, she’ll have to dig one!

I don’t know?

What I do know is that it’s very common and it’s not done because people don’t know how to use the western toilet, it’s because they choose to squat.

Also, to clarify, I haven’t called anyone names.

This is so gross and selfish. I’m sorry but no one goes to England and doesn’t realise people sit on toilets. The least she could do is clean the bloody footprints.

Am I being stupid (probably) why are people standing on loo seats?? Men in disabled toilets doing this and women in ladies loos?? Wtf

Signs on the backs of the cubicle doors.

Standing on the loo seat seems an odd thing to do. Not only could you fall off, I can’t think it would be easy to piddle that way. 😆

Ffs why is this a thing at all? It's not a thing. People from India know how to use a freaking western toilet. We are not morons.

Why is this a new thing over here though?

Not that new. A building I used to work in was also used by members of a particular Asian community. The ladies loos had signs as shown above, indicating the right and wrong way to use the toilets. This would have been in the early 2000s.

I remember the company I work for inviting people from the Philippines office over for experience. They used to go to the loo, wipe using toilet roll and put it in the bin or floor- it was EVERYWHERE.
it’s difficult to remember different countries do things differently when it things like this. But I think signs may be your only way!!
although they didn’t help our situation, even the cleaner refused to deal with it so the owner had to mask and glove up and make hourly visits to the loos.

Are you for real? The OP said they have a new member of staff from India. Clearly it is this person standing on the seat. If it was the other way round and you went to work somewhere in Asia would you rather be taken to one side my a colleague and politely told about the customs there. Or would you like a passive aggressive sign to appear in the toilets clearly aimed at you. It's not hard to understand is it? Try doing a bit of travelling and experience some different cultures before you go raging off about something you clearly know nothing about!

It’s not a new thing. People just have more of a voice than they did years ago. We all know about OP colleague whereas 40 years ago she would only have been able to tell a handful of people IRL.

Just a thought but in buildings were public use the toilets, they stand on toilet seats to hide drugs in the ceiling space because these are normally the tile type ceilings so can be lifted/moved etc.

if there’s four users of the toilets for definite then two options really, speak to her 121 or leave it

Why is this a new thing over here though? We’ve always had Indian people living here but I’ve only heard of the standing on loo seats thing recently.

1. I don't think the OP is in Asia.
2. Toilets in the UK are not a hole in the floor.
3. What's your suggestion to "handle it with humility" that doesn't involve people sitting on a toilet seat that someone else has stood on with their dirty shoes?.

So just don't?

Yes i've experienced this at work too, footprints on the toilet seat from an Indian newbie, how the heck can they do that, you need to sit for control !

It isn't only in Asia, either. On my first school trip to France in 1980, the first toilet we encountered was a hole in the ground and it came as a bit of a shock. It seems to have been a common experience at the time as I have come across a lot of people who have had the same experience. I would imagine that this is no longer the case.

I don't think its a case of they don't know how western toilets are supposed to be used, its that they don't want to use them the western way. They are used to squatting, and want to squat. They may even find it difficult to go if not in a squat position.
Kind of stupid to move to a country where squat toilets aren't a thing in public and might even be hard to find to get installed in your home if you own and have the ability to change your bathroom if you have no intention of using western toilets the western way.