Autry to host training workshop – Enid News & Eagle – Melissa McGann, from the Oklahoma Child Support Office in Enid, who works with employers in the area, said this training will benefit any size or type of …

In this month’s Inc magazine there is a review of the ToneCheck add-on for Outlook. If you install it, it conducts a spell-check like operation looking for words that might be harsh, angry or offensive and flags them, giving you the option to change them before sending the email.

Do professionals not know that sending angry and offensive emails is counter productive? Do we really need a computer program to tell us when we’re too angry to send an email? Hopefully it’s more reliable than spell-check, given the limitations we’ve discovered in that system.

There’s another solution to the problem of sending angry, offensive emails, one that’s been used since way before computers. Write the email or letter if you must. Put it in your drafts folder overnight. Decide if you really want to send it tomorrow. Research shows that ‘getting things off our chests’ actually makes us more angry. Tomorrow, you’re much less likely to want to send it, and much less likely to regret it. You don’t need an Outlook plugin to tell you that.

Child support system has a fair structure – NewsOK.com – Oklahoma uses incomes to determine each parent’s portion of support: If you make less, you pay less and if you make more, you pay more. …