Pretension and titles Options

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A producer at work, in an email that was cc'd to several other very important people, was passing some work on to me. In the email he referred to me as 'Mr. Haggis'. I didn't say anything, but I felt very tempted to correct him to point out that it's 'Dr. Haggis'.

I couldn't decide how to say this without sounding like a really arrogant pillock, which is mostly why I didn't say anything, but it does bug me when people don't use my correct title. I worked damn hard to get that and I'd prefer that people use it. He didn't mean any harm by what he typed, so am I wrong to get a little miffed about this or should I have said something? If so, how are should I have said 'Oi! It's 'doctor'!' without making myself look bad? I realise it would have to be done with humour, but I couldn't think of a way in which the humour wouldn't come across as thinly veiled prentension.

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Working with academics from the civil engineering field I can say from personal experience that the "it's doctor actually" line is a very common one but that no matter how well meaning and well mannered the person saying it there is a wee bit of the ooOOOOooooo that can go on... depends on the recipient.

The engineers I worked with, all PhD holding Doctors Professors etc (some multiply so) all wanted to have people use their correct designations because it was a way for each of them to filter each other in a very snobby academic world, outside some where mroe shilled than others and if they weren't representing themselves in an professional capacity didn't mind too much as how else would someone know unless you tell them.

I use professional designatory letters after my name (gained through work- membership and qualification) to represent my position in relation to those of my industry (not now engineering) that I deal with. I probably wouldn't use them outside but then your's are worth using and has a lot more wait behind it.

Just start putting PhD after your name on a standard block sig... nothing too pretentious there and people will note it.