Reacting negatively to recent reports that unemployment in the Philippines is bolstered by "choosy" applicants, unemployed college graduates blasted the country's lack of available executive and managerial jobs.
"The ones available either offer meager starting salaries and positions, or are unsuitable with our personal desires," Kiki Mateo, 24, a gynecology graduate.
"There are a lot of jobs out there, but are those quality jobs? We didn't stay up studying and drinking Starbucks for countless nights just to hand out fliers in the mall. We deserve to be handed those fliers!"
The National Statistical Coordination Board (NCSB) said Monday that job openings in the country are plenty and enough, but are often left vacant by qualified applicants demanding too high salaries.
"Incidentally, in Manila, this is the same statistical group that purchases a quarter of smartphones in the city," said NSCB secretary-general Jose Albert.
The statements caused great uproar among unemployed college students, who soon took to social networking sites to protest, and because they have nothing else better to do.
A Facebook page called "1 Million Likes for Jobs for College Graduates" was put up hours after NCSB released its report. It quickly raked in more than a million "likes," but gradually lost half of it when the page started spamming ads from Teleperformance and IBM Philippines.
A second Facebook page titled "1 Million Likes for Good Jobs for College Graduates" followed suit and currently has more than two million likes and counting. As of presstime, none of the members are believed to have been employed since the page's inception.
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