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Explanation
This comic shows a man marveling at a woman's computer file-naming discipline. He says: "Wow. You're the only person I know who puts the word 'final' in a document exactly when it's the final version. No 'final18' or 'final_thisone_forreealv13'?" She coolly responds: "It's all about organization, baby."
The caption offers her secret — "Filenaming Strategy: the first time you want to write 'Final' on a document, call it 'FinalDraft_versionNegative400.'"
The joke captures one of the most universal experiences in office and academic work: the endless proliferation of "final" document versions. Everyone has created files named "final_v2," "FINAL_FINAL," or "final_actuallyThisOne_v7." The woman's trick is to start counting from negative 400, so by the time she reaches "Final" with no qualifier, she's gone through exactly 400 revisions — the math just happens to work out. It's a satire of document version control chaos and suggests that the only way to appear organized is to plan for your own disorganization from the very beginning.