Ha! You should hear me rant and grumble every time I have to call the "engineering department" at work when I want to get a hold of a plumber, electrician, or general handyman (for work I could do myself, but am typically barred from, because that's how companies work). I know I shouldn't be that protective of the title, but still, five years of engineering school seems degraded by calling a mister-fix-it "engineer". (To be fair, I never had a PE. I worked automotive, for which one isn't required. Although with the shitty ethics and shoddy designs we've seen across the industry recently, perhaps that needs to change.)
And I worked architectural consulting, in a state in which you couldn't get a PE in acoustics. Our firm did HVAC and plumbing, though, and we had one guy who got to call himself an engineer. It was actually in the process of studying for the EIT that I decided I didn't want to be an engineer. I believe that was also the year that the PE pass rate for my state was 16%. Spending that much time on a subject I hated that didn't directly apply to my way of life with chances of success that slim kinda made me go "fuck everything about that" and within 18 months I was mixing television in Hollywood.