Does this sound rude?

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My new employer, via email, asked if I had something else I wanted to go by, other than my first name. I replied: I usually go by my middle name, but I'll go by [my first name].

Her response: "we can do your middle name, what is it"?.

How are YOU gonna pick what [b]I[/b] want to be called ( on my name badge)???

We are allowed to use middle names or nicknames but I am choosing to go by my real first name for once in my life...and she's basically saying no.

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GlassDog · 41-45, M

She might have been thinking you'd prefer your middle name but that policy wouldn't allow it, and reassuring you that you could use it. But the way she worded it was poor. I'd have said that I don't have any problem with you using either of your names and just to let me know which one you chose.