Siri Geotag Location Reminders

My 'work' location is at a university with multiple streets.  How do I set my geofence on iOS 5 for this location so it doesn't mess up my actual Work address under me in my Address Book.  Can I choose the size of 'fence' and associate it with an address (we have one generic address for the university).  I figure this isn't too far away from what Apple's engineers had to do as their campus is a decent size, so there must be some documentation that I'm just not finding.
I want to tell Siri to remind me to do something when I leave work and she doesn't know where my work is located.

I agree it takes awhile, I noticed that as well. But even after waiting, I (I say I), couldn't get Siri to work for the Company field. Thanks for noting!
Yes, but if Siri offered me the list of grocery stores to select from (In the same way it presents list if it can't pick an item with certainty) I'd be happy with that rather than having to make contacts manually (by using maps ironicallly) for all the places I most want to have location based reminders for. Like "When I arrive at Costco (Sams Club, BJs) remind me to pickup beef jerky".

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