Seconding this. With infinite time and money, I can do whatever you want — excepting squaring the circle. Onus is yours to explain the difficulty and ideally t

Seconding this. With infinite time and money, I can do whatever you want — excepting squaring the circle. Onus is yours to explain the difficulty and ideally the other party decides their own request is unreasonable, once you’ve provided an unreasonable timeline to match. Actually straight-up saying no is always more difficult because if you’re not actually a decision-maker then what you’re doing is probably nonsense. You’re either going to have to explain yourself anyways (and it’s best explained with an unreasonable timeline), or be removed from the process. It’s also often the case that the requestor has tried to imagine himself in your shoes in an attempt to better explain his goals, and comes up with some overly complex solution — and describes that solution instead of the original goal. Your goal with absurd requests is to pierce that veil and reach the original problem, and then work back to construct a reasonable solution to it