Many years ago, when I was on a sales training course, I was taught to beware of people who like their titles or badges of rank
You know the type, they have their name on the door, and/or on a plate on their desk. They usually have nothing else to be proud of in their miserable lives, and are often writers of, and adherents to, rule books.
The technique that was supposed to work, was to try and draw these people out from behind the desk they were hiding behind, and so bring them on to the same level as yourself. However I never found this worked, maybe I wasn't a persuasive enough salesman :)
Up here in the highlands of Scotland, we have a plethora of retired servicemen, and most of them still hang on to their rank, still calling themselves Colonel X or Captain Y.
They are like the people who must put their title or their degree after their name when they sign a letter or a document.
I feel sorry for people like that, but at the same time wary too, as it's often an indication of a closed mind.