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

@Crazyworksituatio
could you get something like this for in there. See attached image…

Adult toilet stool

Some are at ground level with the bowl sinking into the ground. Others are about half the height of western toilets (like a high step).
In both styles the rim is very wide (also stronger) and has a shoe type pattern - it's obvious you put your feet there.

I am amazed you were constipated in India. I wasn't anywhere remotely near constipated for about two months after visiting India.

How many times has this happened? I'm from India and I cannot for the life of me imagine anyone not knowing how to use a western style toilet. Yes Asian style ones, aka hole in the ground, are still popular because they are considered to be more hygienic and good for your health but it's highly unlikely that this lady has never come across a Western style toilet or wouldn't be able to work out how to use one. Especially not someone educated enough to work in a professional position.

I doubt it has happened more than once. can you imagine squatting on a toilet seat? It must feel so perilous that surely no one would try again

It's more likely she took her shoes off to clean them or something like that.

Well if she'd wiped her footprints off the seat no-one would have known... (Just as anyone using the toilet should leave it clean for the next person to use.)

I accidentally caught a Chinese female student at uni doing this when she didn't lock the door. I was impressed how agile she was tbh

Yeah so the signs weren’t needed before but now they are as the toilet isn’t being used properly?

Is there such thing as a semi circular step stool that people who want to use the loo like this could put their feet on I wonder? I find it helpful to put my feet on my DCs step stool when I go so I can see why some people use that position although actually standing on the loo is a bit odd.

edited to add I have just googled it and there is in fact a squatty potty product that is used for this purpose, cheap as well!

Eww, because the bottom of the shoes will be dirty & potentially have rat piss/dog or poo crap on them?!

Cultural, my dh had this with a colleague back in the day. Sadly, the colleague’s aim was crap (ha!) and the floor suffered as a result. I think the boss ultimately put up a sign re not squatting on the seat.

Squatting I get, it’s a more hygienic way of using the toilet and, as others have mentioned, toilets are often ground level in parts of the world where it’s common. But on a western loo? How on earth do people keep their balance? What do they hold on to? I’m pretty sure I’d end up in A&E if I tried to balance on a toilet seat, especially if the bloody thing moved.

Yeah only there were no signs until the Indian lady turned up so….

Perhaps speak to HR before printing off or buying signs so it can be handled in a culturally appropriate and respectful way.

I don’t think it’s offensive to put the signs up. Plenty of places in the uk have the signs in the toilets

I live in Japan where both squat toilets and Western toilets are available. signs telling you not to stand on the seats of western toilets are fairly common.

Etsy do a version of this which might be a “fun” addition to your work toilet

https://www.etsy.com/listing/962128157/please-dont-get-creative-with-toilet

or another thing in many toilets are disposable seat covers which you could just put in the bathroom and use for your hygiene which would be a less confrontational way.
https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/Toilet-Disposable-Flushable-Biodegradable-Accessories/dp/B0D8XYBLNX

she will eventually find out from someone, somewhere so I don’t think it will be a long lasting issue

I wouldn't sit on a toilet seat at work anyway. I usually cover it in toilet paper otherwise would hover!! It could be unsafe though and signs might help limit liability and make it less likely she'll hurt herself!

We had a colleague who did this until one day she ran screaming from the toilet cubicle.The toilet had broken off and was pouring water all over the place.Our toilets simply aren't designed for this but I'm sure it's a more logical position.

It doesn't have to be unhygienic to not want to sit on someone else's dirty outdoor shoes. I wouldn't want to do it, but that doesn't mean it's unhygienic.

At a toilet I frequent they have put simple signs up to help people to use the toilet properly. I do though vaguely wonder how someone that is used to standing on a floor and squatting thinks it is ok to stand on a probably unsteady raised toilet with a wobbly seat that they literally have to climb up on but didn't voice this as I will be accused of being racist.

I would just wipe the seat before using it, but I do that every time in public anyway.

a sign isn’t going to stop this, it’s not as if she is confused and doesn’t know it’s a sit not squat toilet. She knows full well and is choosing to use it incorrectly.

If you squat on it (as per pic) surely you piss or shit on your legs/feet -- that is gross.

And how the hell do they get up there/balance for a long hard log exiting?

We had this in our office, around 50 Asian staff in the building. We were replacing a broken toilet seat once a week 😕

Is a western toilet confusing her? I've known Chinese people who had no idea how to use them and would squat on the seat. So signs appeared with a person doing exactly that and a big cross through it, with one alongside showing a person sitting down and a nice big tick through that.

These things aren't obvious if they're outside your cultural norms.

Yes i thought this. Why is it unhygienic for your bum skin to touch shoe prints? It’s not like you rub your arse over your food and eat it or similar

What a strange thing to be bothered abut and what strange replies- how on earth can you be bothered about putting your bare skin on somewhere where outdoor shoes have been when that same place will be covered in someone elses urine and have touched someones bare bottom? I never sit on a public toilet seat anyway unless I wipe it first!