Yep, my biggest frustration is when people (not just managers) ask questions instead of looking things up. And it can be hard to push back against because they are "just trying to get the answer more efficiently by just asking". Which is true, it's usually more efficient to ask someone who knows something than to find something yourself. The problem is that it preempts work to be done in serial instead of doing a bit more work in parallel. There is a point at which that makes sense, there are things people know that require a lot of legwork for someone else to find out for themselves. But "what are you working on" is pretty much never in that category.
