I am currently studying in college and part of my college course dictates that I most do a work experience placement. I ended being placed in a charity shop. The first couple of days went well. Its a small little shop in a shopping center so there wasn’t much for me to do. So they decided that today I’ll do some work in the warehouse where they receive their goods.

They gave me the address but they forgot the bus so I ended taking a bus that stopped at a 20 minutes walk away. I got off the bus and tried to find this warehouse with the help of Google maps. It kept constantly telling me to go in different directions for the next 40 minutes. So I was walking around in 0 degrees Celsius weather is just a jumper. I eventually managed to find the correct area but it was in a big industrial park. I went searching around for 40 minutes and it turns out all they had to identify them is like a tiny wooden sign. So I finally got to my placement nearly 2 hours late. They were quite forgiving about it though since apparently that has happened to a few other before.

    • dingus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      Idk. Google Maps has had the wrong location for my mom’s address for what seems like forever now. Reporting it has done nothing. It’s really frustrating because it means she can’t get deliveries from anyone other than USPS, UPS, Amazon, or FedEx. Food deliveries are flat out not possible. It directs people to an entirely different neighborhood.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      I’ve filed so many reports and they have never fixed any of them. My favorite one was that I was driving along following directions and realized google took me down a private road. No shit, had no idea where I was, but this “road” was definitely someone’s field road. In the middle of it there’s a car parked to the side, and literally 2 guys, one with a shotgun just stare me down as I drive away. Got back on the main road and got the fuck out of there.

      Reported it to Google as a private road. Nothing changed. Reported again - response with “We didn’t find anything wrong”. Reported again and still nothing. Reporting is a placebo for google.

        • flubba86@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          Same. The only time I ever reported something wrong on maps, it took them 3 months to get around to it (the queue must be very long) but they fixed it.

          • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            all 30-odd corrections I submitted to my own address were handled within a day. And then reverted, but at least handled.