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

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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??

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.

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.

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.

yes people from other cultures are gross and smelly.

But you are truly disgusting

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.

Could a squatty potty stool be provided?

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

It is gross and she needs to be told not to stand on the f*cking loo! Why would you do something so stupid anyway?

Tell me you've never travelled anywhere out of the UK without telling me you've never travelled anywhere out of the UK 😆

Someone at my work was pooing in the cistern of the toilet. As in taking the tank lid off and then pooing in it whilst squatting on the seat. So gross. We also had a staff member pooing in the female changing room and repeatedly hiding the turd in the scrubs (we don’t have toilets in the changing room) we had to get swipe access so that security could figure out who it was.
we also had a lot of emails sent about not flushing knickers down the toilets in the female staff
room. The public have no access to our changing rooms and toilets so all the above is a member of nhs staff.

Still the case in many parts of France. One of our favourite ski areas has squat toilets in the public car park which I have used as recently as January this year. Also been in a football stadium toilets in France which was squat (and ankle deep in urine, which was nice).

This happened where I worked - mums using the disabled toilets and breaking the seats while standing on them.

Why??? I get not wanting to sit down on a public toilet but surely you hunch down over it, feet on the ground. Standing on it would make pee/poo splatter all over since it's hard to aim perfectly from that distance so I would be more worried about that. It's very weird, never heard about someone doing this.

The lack of hygiene I’ve witnessed on children’s wards by nurses and other members of staff is shocking and ultimately inexcusable given the awareness of germs and their massive impact on health