Ask HN: How to deal with colleague that think I am his personal ChatGPT?
And me, a young junior without PhD.
My colleague never stop asking me any slightest question that you can find the answer by googling. For instance how to do git pull, how to update github token, what's the meaning of ValueError in Python, etc. For some questions I have already answered twice and he noted the solution somewhere twice as well, just never learn.
When I took month long paid long vacation, he begged me to come back frequently because he will be helpless that no one he can ask. But I don't give a F. Because our job has zero overlap and I don't know shit about what he is working on. We just happen to sit in the same lab. Everytime he ask me stuff, I google thing and teach him back because I don't have that knowledge. But why am I doing this?
Moreover, he wouldn't read his own email. Several times he show me the email and ask what's that mean even though that's written in language that he should understand.
I have already shown him how to use Google, ChatGPT, DeepL, but at the end I am still his personal ChatGPT.
How to deal with such person so that I can work on my stuff?