[UK-AL]

Sounds like an awful apprenticeship, since you are unaware of what you don't know.

Did they use source control?

[shanelja]

No source control, anything I worked on came directly from my own machine, there were only two copies - the one on the server and the local copy, until my first major incidence, my own source control (in the form of automated backups) was none-existence as I had never encountered a situation where my beginners brain had deemed it necessary.

[bvdbijl]

In a few posts up he says they didn't have a backup system :)

[UK-AL]

I would not call source control "backup". More like a standard requirement for collaboration.