From my own experience as an entrepreneurial business owner who employs dozens of people at times very sporadically because of the nature of the work, I have found that anytime an employee or hired contractor is telling me about someone else in my staff, they are actually telling me precisely about THEMSELVES.
When some person is nit-picking about someone else's activities, view that information as a direct projection of that person's guilt being brought forward, projected onto someone else, then presented to you as if they know more about the offending person that you could ever find out for yourself.
What the information geek is unconsciously admitting to me when this happens is his own wrong-doings, not someone else's bad attitude, even if that other person is also guilty of the same thing.
The information geek has simply found a scapegoat to unload his own guilty feelings on by ratting on his co-worker's lack of performance who's only reflecting what the information geek does himself!
