multiverse

A two-panel comic. Main panel: An angry blond curly-haired man in a blue shirt gestures emphatically at a coworker (seen from behind) and shouts, "Oh yeah?! Well there's an infinite number of universes out there where I am firing you for not wearing pants to work!" A caption below reads: "Multiverse theory has really improved my life outlook." The joke is that he consoles himself about a workplace dispute by imagining parallel universes where he wins. Votey (small follow-up panel, hand-drawn): An annoyed-looking person says in a speech bubble, "This workplace is non-Everettian" — a deadpan reference to Hugh Everett's many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, implying that at this particular workplace the comforting infinite-universes logic does not apply.