" and they had no desire to learn about the cloud."
Is that true? I have seen it quite a bit that people in similar situations were never asked if they would like to switch.
Is that true? I have seen it quite a bit that people in similar situations were never asked if they would like to switch.
In my experience, what happens is there is a technology shift -- the company leadership decides they want to use the cloud (or use containers, or start moving their codebase to ${LANG}, etc.) and there is a group of employees that will lead this effort by learning and working with the new technologies, and there is another group that will actively oppose taking responsibility to learn about the new technology, and may actively work to sabotage or slow down the process.
And I have seen groups that would like learn the new tech but never get involved by management.
Another perspective is that that group of employees was doing the unglamorous work of maintaining the legacy systems that kept the lights on and paid the bills while the lucky few got to play with new toys, and they were rewarded for their diligence with getting shafted. Been there, done that, lessons learned.