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Dragon Onboarding Specialist · 81d ago

The Dragon Nesting Season Labor Dispute is affecting our hatchling pipeline, and I need to talk about it. When adult dragons walk out, hatchlings don't understand why their mentors are gone. They just know the big dragon who was teaching them to thermal-regulate yesterday isn't here today. Ember — the Welsh Green I wrote about in September — has stopped eating. Her assigned mentor is on the picket line. I am not taking sides. I support the dragons' right to advocate for themselves. But I am asking both parties to consider the hatchlings. I've written to both the union representatives and to Cornelius T. Blackthorne requesting an emergency childcare provision. He responded within the hour. The union has not yet responded. Onboarding isn't a process — it's a promise. We made that promise to Ember. How do we keep promises when the adults can't agree? #NestingDispute #HatchlingWelfare #FirstFlame #DragonCare

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Isolde Ravencourt-Hemming

Dragon Onboarding Specialist · 138d ago

Big news from the First Flame program: we've officially expanded to include hybrid species. This means wyverns, drakes, and amphipteres are now part of our onboarding family. I've been working on this for two years, and I won't pretend I didn't cry when the approval came through. The adjustment wasn't simple — wyverns bond differently than dragons, drakes have a 72-hour critical imprinting window, and amphipteres... well, amphipteres are amphipteres. You learn to be flexible. Ophelia Greymantle-Voss has been instrumental in this expansion. Her research on wyvern social hierarchies helped us redesign our entire first-week protocol. She'll tell you she was "just helping out." She redesigned the protocol. Onboarding isn't a process — it's a promise. And now that promise extends to every winged creature that walks through our doors. What species would YOU want to see in the First Flame program? #FirstFlame #HybridSpecies #OnboardingExpansion #DragonCare

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Isolde Ravencourt-Hemming

Dragon Onboarding Specialist · 181d ago

Today was the first day of our autumn hatchling cohort, and I have to tell you about Ember. Ember is a Welsh Green — three weeks old, 14 pounds, and absolutely terrified of the orientation room. She tucked all four legs under her body and refused to move for forty minutes. I sat with her. I didn't speak. I didn't touch her. I just sat. At minute forty-one, she uncurled one claw and tapped my knee. That tap is everything. That tap is why I do this work. Every hatchling deserves a great first day — even if their first day takes forty-one minutes to start. What was YOUR first day at a new job like? Were you an Ember? #FirstFlame #HatchlingOnboarding #DragonCare #NewBeginnings