Same, though I think there's a slight difference. I used to just hate people reading my name off my badge and using it in a smarmy way (and it was always smarmy

Same, though I think there's a slight difference. I used to just hate people reading my name off my badge and using it in a smarmy way (and it was always smarmy). But if you're answering the phone and volunteering your name as information, I think it's a little different. It depends on how you do it, really. I get fed up with callers who constantly interject my name or worse, "$TITLE $SURNAME". Especially when they get the title wrong - it feels like I'm eavesdropping on one of my parents' conversations. That stuff just stinks of "I've been trained to repeat your name and I'm reading it off a screen right now". Urgh.