Pretension and titles Options

[Mata]

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.

[gerbilfromhell]

You've gotta go totally over the top; don't just wear a stethoscope, wear a laminated copy of your PhD around your neck at all times and correct people by clearing your throat loudly, holding it up and pointing to it. You could even have it printed onto a shirt, possibly with the caption "That's DR. Haggis to you." Saves you from having to actually correct anyone while still allowing you to make it funny. Seems foolproof to me

(also agree that it seems kind of pretentious to leave it as an email signature, though I also am totally unused to people addressing anyone as Dr, even a medical doctor, outside of their professional capacity. Then again, I don't know any doctors personally)