Prepping for your successor - what are you doing?

When I wrote mine, it was for a direct hire CIR like me, so I didn't have the apartment or JET info, but most of the rest was the same. I also included info on the relationships between the CO and other international associations, who was on good or bad terms, that kind of office political stuff.

I have a run down of all the jobs and a ton of templates but it's all very disorganised so I'm going to do it all up into a Hama Bible.

As for issues with offices (we all know I am the queen of that), I'm going to keep it down to 'this is how this process works via bureaucracy', 'this is what they mean when they say this', and then explain about some office culture things that I've come across while being here (like privacy, dealing with questions, and general low down on how the office functions differently to the west). Cos, yeah, I'm in the same boat as you redstuff and perhaps the next person will be more suited to the position. So I don't want to give them any negative impressions before they get stuck in. I mean, maybe a few warnings but... you know.

I plan on making a fax machine instruction booklet also.

So much to do, so little time.

But I know how awful it was coming in for me and the other ALTs to an office where they had no clue what they were doing I was just kind of tossed into the mayhem. Now I have a chance to prepare my successor with the tools they need so I want to do a really good and detailed job of it; their job is going to be hard enough as is. Then they probably won't read any of it.