Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US campus) to trouble, to bother, to annoy.

1967–8		Baker et al. CUSS 129: Grief Tease or annoy someone.
1986		J. Ellroy Suicide Hill 222: ‘I blew it and he got away.’ ‘What!’ ‘Don't grief me on that, goddamn you!’.
2008		S. Lewis Bad Traffic 133: The men glared at each other. ‘I’m doing you a favor here. You're griefing me and I'm doing you a favour’ .