Yep, was going to say about the telecoms email. That wasn't HR tho, that was a shitty manager who also put nasty wording on my probation-pass report that I was sometimes aggressive with no warning about what was aggressive and refused to give me any concrete examples.
I refused to sign the report unless she removed that paragraph. She told me to rewrite it, which I said was HER job. It was left unsigned.
In hindsight I should have written my objections on the document so it was better documented that she was bullying me. Sadly having actually taken another manager to a harassment process shortly after, I have no faith that reporting her for bullying would have done anything except force me into biased mediation with a horrible person.
I will now never do mediation where there is a power imbalance between myself and the other side if the mediators are part of the org we're both involved with. I also know mediation in employers is a step to tick a box and not anything about giving a fuck about employees.
