I do need the help and I’ve reached out to him directly both days and he has not offered to meet with me. I find this especially frustrating because I spent a LOT of time getting him ramped up on the project and always help him when he asks. Yesterday, he knew I needed help because I asked him, and instead, he spent the whole day tagging me in slack messages asking for help with his work, distracting me from mine. Just, annoyed.

Edit: I gave an update in an afternoon meeting with just the two of us and our team lead after he ignored my slack message asking for help. I said that if he had bandwidth it would be great if he could take a look at the issue I was seeing. He wrote back on the side and said he didn’t see my message (so sorry about that!). Maybe he didn’t, but he also told the whole team his plan was to work with me today so you’d think given that he’d reach out since he was apparently all caught up on his stuff and used me as a prop in stand up to look good. Anywho, he did meet with me after that but offered no helpful insights. He outranks me.