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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm an in-house counsel at a large company. The company uses external and internal titles. So my business cards say VP, but my internal title is director. On my email signature box, I have my title as VP. I use the same sig box for internal and external emails (never occurred to me not to).

Anyway, today I got an email reply from my boss's secretary. I think she meant to forward it, but replied by mistake. Her email said "this lady has been here a month and is signing her name as VP - too funny!!! (She's a director.)".

Presumably she was talking about me, and, like I said, meant to forward but hit reply.

I'm embarrassed, but also mad. I mean, wtf? My business cards say VP. I'm somewhat young for my role, and do a lot of external work for the company, so I like to include my title so that people don't think they're getting stuck with someone junior who doesn't have any authority. And this secretary has been here for 10+ years, so I can't see how she doesn't know about the internal/external titles.

How should I address it? Just ignore? Forward to my boss and ask what the general practice is at the company regarding titles? Reply, explaining that VP is actually my title?[/quote]

Oh, I would absolutely respond. Your idea of forwarding to your boss is good- the other one would be to respond to her:

"Lara, it looks like this message was meant for someone else. However, as you rightly point out, I have only been her a month. Is there some reason not to use my external title on emails? If so, please share! I always appreciate some help learning the ropes."

And CC your boss. [/quote]

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