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

It would be the kind thing to do, alert her to the cultural faux pas before she eg goes for supper at someone’s house and really upsets the host. Bless her.

if you fly air India they have the signs in their loos on the plane. I have seen flight attendants shouting at miscreants who don’t follow the clear instructions. Deffo pop signs up. This is one for HR to sort…

i think with only 4 of you in the office a sign would be pretty horrific yes. Her manager will have to speak to her

fwiw uk loos are supposed to be able to take weight, but not necessarily with seat up or for this purpose. They used to be tested to withstand people standing on the seat to change the lightbulb 😃

I had the same idea and my first thought was that people who are doing that must be thinking we are completely bonkers to put ourselves in a perilous position.

It is really common in Asia. A lot of toilets in Asia are just a hole in the floor that you squat over. They think we are gross for putting our bums on the seat. I can see both points of view. I would handle it with humility and not go about trying to embarrass the woman.

Think two holes in the ground . A la 1980s French camping holidays as a child…

In cultures where this is standard, what are toilets like? Because I'd be genuinely worried standing on a standard UK toilet seat that I'd slip, and I'm a fairly agile person. Is it not quite tricky to balance?

When she next makes a visit, could you pop your head over the cubicle and say...

"Excuse me, Health and Safety here. Please be careful you could easily slip off that seat with those shoes and it could be a bit embarrassing for you when recorded in the Accident Book. Even worse if your foot gets jammed in the bowl and we have to get the Maintenance Man out."

There’s posters in the toilets at uni with clear (picture) instructions not to stand on the toilet seats. I thought it was mad

Examples, for those confused.The toilets pictured below are very common in many parts of the world.

They might take a moment to appear if MN is still approving pictures manually.

Can you take her aside and say that it’s not safe? It isn’t. Western lavatories are not built for standing on.

There are signs about this all over women’s lavatories at my place of work.

Starting to think this is a racist made up post. Like the Muslim woman refusing to meet clients one that I stupidly got dragged into…

Tried to get in first with a nasty comment to start a pile-on but that backfired on them. 😂 Apparently they weren’t aware that this is a common cultural difference that often warrants illustrative signs above the loo.

She may find it gross that there's no bum gun and toilet paper only so the only problem really is that she could break the seat and cause an injury.

Squatting is actually a healthier way to do a number 2, perhaps she can't go properly without doing that? Could you ask hr for a foot stall she could use instead?

Part of what makes it gross is that nobody likes to imagine their colleagues taking a dump. Now this will be all you can think of when you look at her.

It is a risk to the toilet seat, yes, as they’re not designed for the weight in the UK. It’s really not particularly gross though and I can’t understand being grossed out by it. You think there’s a particular risk of infection via skin on your bum?

Haha to be honest I was thinking of public loos as where I work it’s a shared loo with the public. It always looks clean but you never know what’s been on the loo seat so I always wipe it first out of habit. And I’m sure people do worse than stand on the seats.

I suppose in an office with only a few other people you’d expect the loo to be fairly hygienic.

Maybe you should say something after all 🤣

@MagicPharmacist reading the responses, I think you've had your arse handed to you

pun intended 😂

My god the entitlement! Everyone has to “wipe or hover” because one person decides to stand on the loo.

The men do this in the disabled toilets of a service station i frequent when they want a shit. The seats are knackered, barely hanging on and a weight shift when sitting on it properly can send it sliding with a very sharp jutting motion by a few inches, i've nearly fell off and hurt myself a few times! They drench the floor and leave their arse rinsing cups nicked from the self service on the sink too, and never use the provided toilet brush. They're genuinely dangerous to use now if you're not steady on your feet and don't have great balance. I doubt signs would help tbh, if they're used to squat toilets they don't want to use western toilets the way they are intended.
Makes me wonder if cultural toilet use practice is a protected characteristic as its fear of being branded racist why i haven't complained about the service station disabled toilets.

Don't you wash the back if your legs or anything?

It beaks the toilet and means op has to clean the toilet before sitting on it.

You need signs. It's only a matter of time before either the seat or the toilet pan breaks and someone gets hurt.