>Someone told me the guy who was VP of IT did sit in front of a meeting and said that he was obviously the best programmer in the company.

Nice. Mine told me that he has worked with the best programmers in the world, and that he has many applications he has written himself that is still earning him tons of money, but when he was sitting over my shoulder telling me how he wanted a SQL Server table created and he made me include the calculated fields, I started to doubt that...