I had every intention of talking about internships this week – and not just because we haven't been able to get one on the editorial side here for a few years now.

(But we're apparently in the minority now since, according to this CareerBuilder survey, less than 30 percent of employers are even looking to pick up summer interns this year. Surprisingly – at least to me – that's actually a bump up from last year, when only 21 percent of employers went looking for temporary summer help. But I digress from my digression…)

I was in a meeting this morning mulling over these intern numbers (while trying to figure out who all the new marketing ones in our own office are) when the human resource department's bad rap came up.