Manager: What the heck are you guys doing? Pair programming?! That would halve the team productivity!!!

We:

Manager: Alright, Let's do a "quick" four hours meeting. Everyone in the company MUST attend!

We:

But.... pair programming is shown to increase code quality and thus reduce future investments into support and bug fixing :(

@Hazarth well bosses are shithead.

A meeting longer than a hour decreases the whole effiency for the rest of the day.

Meetings are tiresome.

Note: non ironical, with the video call boom and other stuff pharma / med research picked up this topic and a whole lot of studies show what we knew for a long time.