We are dangerous and not very discriminating.
A "professional" was in my yard doing some cleanup work while we discussed his coming back another time to do some "professional" pruning.
I had had an ancient rhodie that had had died back to mostly dead wood plus one green twig emerging FROM the seemingly dead trunk. Admittedly, the dead trunk stuck up to eye level, and he WAS cleaning up the yard.
I was leading him towards it while saying "this is the one I would MOST like to save, if you can cut off the dead wood at top while leaving the one grren twig to grow back ..."
As I was saying "I would MOST like to save ...", he interrupted me saying "for example i can break this off" while he twisted the whole rotten trunk, breaking it at ground level (and I'm 99% sure, killing that old rhododendron ex-tree completely).
So it was easy not to hire him again. He made it even easier by trying to increase the price of a job by 50% after agreeing to it and finishing the job while I was away from home (after agreeing to do it while I was there to watch). He claimed that the dump fees were 3-4 times greater than he expected (as a "professional" who dumped there at least 5 times per week),
But I had checked ahead of time, and knew exactly what the fees were.
Anyway, he killed my ancient Rhodie and lied like a rug. When I lived on Cape Cod, we called that being a "Cape Cod Craftsman", but I see you can find it anywhere if you look like a sucker
