By Michael Santo
Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews

After two weeks of testing, Layoff Tracker was released formally on Monday. It’s a widget you can add to your website to constantly remind visitors just how bad things really are job-wise.

Written by Telonu.com (Tell On You, get it?), a site that lets you “Rave, Rant, Rateâ„¢ your Office, your School, the People there and everything else,” the widget compiles official numbers from news reports and company press releases, and gives it to you right where it can depress you the most.

On the other hand, while the widget is depressingly new, the site itself mirrors quite a bit a site I’ve written about previously, Glassdoor.com. It does, however, focus more on the layoff portion of an employee’s relationship with his / her company.

In fact, there’s a whole section on layoff “tells” and reviews. I’m not sure, however, if this makes the site all that much more valuable than Glassdoor, but as they say, you can tell a lot about how a company treats its employees by how it treats them when it lets them go.

Unfortunately, the widget won’t embed here. I’m guessing it’s something to do with the other Widgetbox we already run. At any rate, check out Telonu’s site and get depressed there.