<i>&gt;I think it would be easyish to fill out another 10 reasons for what &quot;can&#x27;t&quot; really means that are more common than &quot;it is flat out impossible regardless of budget&#x2F;resources&quot;.</i><p>Yes. But the skit isn&#x27;t <i>about</i> that.<p>I often get impossible tasks from managers. Luckily when I tell them why they actually <i>listen</i> and aren&#x27;t purposefully obtuse like the team from the skit. But the obtuse manner of the meeting is part of the comedy. Sometimes the management&#x2F;sales&#x2F;marketing team just doesn&#x27;t get it.<p>The most <i>common</i> request?<p>&quot;Please enhance this 92x92 .jpg logo x5-x10 its current size without lowering the quality of the logo.&quot;<p>My most common pushback?<p>&quot;Sure. Get with their designer and get me the original file, be it .psd or .ai so that I can work with a larger resolution copy of the image. If they don&#x27;t have the original file for their logo, you are asking for one of two things: 1) Recreate their logo or 2) The impossible. If (1) my answer is no. If (2) my answer is with modern technology, I can&#x27;t.&quot;<p>I&#x27;ve also been asked to <i>uncrop</i> photos. Not as in &quot;restore a backup from before we saved over it with a cropped version&quot; but literally <i>uncrop</i> a photo.<p>I don&#x27;t necessarily blame these people or get angry with them. I blame CSI and other investigative shows where they &quot;enhance&quot; a blurry photo to 4k crystal-clear resolution and read the reflection off of a button of a guys&#x27; jeans to read the licence plate of his car. They&#x27;ve been told this shit is possible by TV shows that use just-enough real tech to make the fake tech seem real to people outside of the loop.