Out of the loop

I suppose that's possible, but I didn't see the word "Bitlocker". Would that not necessarily appear on screen? It just asked for a product key, which I thought was odd.

It wasn't blocking me from logging into Windows (which would blue screen though). It was instead blocking me from using certain recovery options.

Edit: After some digging, that is likely what it was even thought it didn't say Bitlocker on the screen. From screenshots, it looks like it occasionally doesn't say that. Would make sense for security purposes and I'm sure many companies had something like that enabled. It made fixing the whole ordeal a much more slow and manual process though instead of just giving users some instructions!

Also sorry idk who downvoted you!