94 Times Customers Were So Clueless, Employees Didn’t Know Whether To Laugh Or Cry

So I work at Walmart, and have become very used to parents just coming up to me while i’m stocking and zoning and say they’re going to grab something across the store and tell me, not even ask, to watch their kid, and then walk off before i can even process it. I used to just do it and watch the kid, but now i’m turning in the kids to my administrators and now they call the parents to come pick up their kid. I’m tired, i have this happen not even exaggerating like 3 times a week, and its annoying. I’m not a babysitter, I am customer service, and those services do not include free child care. So please to anyone who does this, stop leaving your kids with workers at stores. And if you’re a worker at a store such as walmart like me, drop the kids off at an asset protection or some higher up authority figure and the parents can deal with them about leaving their kids with strangers. Its just baffling parents will leave their children with strangers who are at work simply because we work there, like we’re instantly to trust in child care, its genuinely concerning.

So i was working at the self checkout today, and we have four machines that all have across the top of the screen when in use “card only.” There are also signs above each one that say the same thing. To her credit, the machine she got on USED to take cash, as you can see by its design below the shelf.
She rang up three keys while i was helping another customer and called me over to ask me how you pay with cash. I have to do this all of the time. All. Of. The. Time. So i said, “oh im sorry. These only take card—“ and she interrupted me “Well, it didnt say ‘card only’ anywhere on it!”
Now since she scanned items, it wouldnt say it on the machine anymore like in the photo. I smiled and said “well it says it then i pointed to the sign right there above the machine, but [coworker] can take cash.” She said, “no that’s fine, ill just go to the one that takes cash.” And i had to tell her that none of them take cash and pointed at the screens.
It absolutely infuriates me how often people will walk up to a machine that states “card only” and get mad at me when it only takes card. Please read the screen.