I worked for a short time for an American company. They had periodic phishing test from Mitnick. The links in those emails was not to be clicked as it would trigger a mandatory training. The emails also had a header saying they were a phishing test, so I deleted all those emails in a filter.
The company also ran a mail filter called Baracuda or something similar that followed links in emails to see if they were malicious.
I was quite annoyed when I was called to do the mandatory training as "I" had clicked a link (on an email I hadn't seen) and more so when told I had no other recourse than to sit through it.
I resigned shortly afterwards.
Did everyone get flagged then thanks to Barracuda? You’d think they’d realize there’s a problem if there’s a 100% fail rate.
Edit: also, to be fair, you basically told them you had opted out of the test, so it’s not completely ridiculous for them to ask you to do the training instead.