My first like real programming job, in 2019, version control was “download the project from the share drive, update the code, then add your new code back to the share with todays date in the folder name”.
Everyone, except 1 dude liked SVN or mercurial, wanted the boss to just get us on git. It became the general standard for a reason. None of us liked the version control system we had, but HDD space was cheap so the boss wasn’t that concerned.
I once told my boss that when I advertised as being a java dev when he was wondering why I was having a hard time with JS. He still didn’t get it and thought one was a subset of the other. I had to explain to him that you don’t drive your carpet to work, they are infact different and only share some letters in common.