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I wouldn't have done that without first checking if they were actually in the wrong places or not.

If you weathered that incident without getting at all upset, I would say did very well and that there's nothing at all wrong with your emotional self-control.

Thanks, but I wasn't worried about my emotional self-control. I was just a bit confused as to why it was funny and how I was supposed to know it was a joke.

As practical jokes go, that one was just lame.
I mean, the gist of it was "haha, you think that my computer can succumb to esoteric problems". I guess you were meant to yell at her for having fat fingers, but even then the joke is "haha, you think I'm stupid".
Guess she was just bored but hadn't really thought it through?

This joke was not nice .

Ha. That is silly. Maybe she likes you....?

My guess?

You weren't supposed to know that she had been joking. You were supposed to do exactly as you did, and then listen to her and her friend laugh about how easy it is to 'wind you up' or how gullible you are. In spite of the fact that having your keyboard map get messed up, or consistantly mishitting on two keys that are next to one another is hardly all that unlikely, so it wasn't gullible for you to check it out.

Sounds like a lame joke to me, unfunny and vaguely meanspirited. I am sure I would have responded by saying, "Jesus, what are you, nine?" and walking away, and then ended up ignoring them whispering about what a jerk I am for the rest of the year. Congratulations on avoiding that.

Sure, it's possible that it was meanspirited, but I think it'd be a mistake for the OP to assume that. A lot of times people will tease someone because they sorta like them and want to get to know them better. The fact that she bothered to explain that she was joking rather than just laughing at him makes it seem like she wasn't trying to be mean about it.

You may be right about that. I am a jerk, and have very little patience for stuff like that.

Your avatar with the wolf-hybrid appearantly musing over coffee is kind of disturbing.

Don't help those people again. They're not your friends.

Exactly.

In school, other kids were always playing these kinds of tricks on me for "laughs", but I thought people grew out of this sort of behaviour before they left high school.

I have no tolerance for people playing stupid tricks like this, even when they are just joking with no harm meant. It's childish and it really irritates me because I don't see the point in it, nor the humour.

Keyboard issues are quite common, especially the one she claimed to have. It's also quite typical and logical to press the keys to confirm that they really aren't working, and that it's not just something she's doing wrong (mistyping), so, I really don't see how this is funny, if they were doing it just to humour themselves.

actually, I don't fix keyboards (they're so cheap, we chuck 'em and bring 'em another one..

What I would have done is pull over a trash can, turn the keyboard upside down over it and shake. Then I'd watch her type.
When she revealed what she was up to, I'd shake my head sadly, and give her what's known as a 'withering glance'.

Next time she'd have a real problem, I'd ask if it was a real problem, though..paybacks' a mofo...

Actually, there's a way in assembler to scramble her keyboard...but that would be mean...

I don't think the possibility of the "s" and "d" keys being mixed up would be a high possiblity, as most people just touch type, right? Office people should at least know how to use their tools properly, as I see it anyway...

And what the hell was the point of that joke? "Haha, I tricked you with my stupid attempt at humor in order to poke fun at your inherent desire to be helpful"??? I'm sure most everyone would find this joke very lame...

Thanks for the replies everyone. They're greatly appreciated.

I don't think it was intended to be a trick for me to start with - it's the ha-ha-you're-so-gullible bit at the end which got to me and made me wonder how one was supposed to know it was a joke and how the other person knew, unless of course it was a private joke between them and I didn't realise this.

Someone else at work laughed at me before because they said I was easy to wind up, but I thought it meant easy to annoy. I had a go at him once too because he always laughs at me when I get easily confused. Turns out that time he wasn't laughing at me (so he said), but there was so much going on around me at the time I couldn't think straight and got confused as to who was saying what to whom.

Doesn't matter. You did the professional thing and approached the situation seriously, as though a real problem existed that you had been called to fix. She was being very unprofessional by wasting the time and effort that you could have spent more productively elsewhere. I would recommend that you treat all requests for technical help—which is what you are employed to give—as serious, even if you suspect that someone is pulling your leg. If that kind of "joke" continues to happen, I would say that you have a valid complaint to make to your managers.