Am I being ripped off? I am business man but I am not tech savvy.  Recently, I have needed to use bitcoin for a few business transactions and so I asked my IT guy to buy the bitcoins for me and take care of the transactions.  He told me that due to various fees the $2000 dollars that I gave him only amounted to $1,400 after said fees.  My question is: am I being ripped off?
Fees usually are around 1% for each side (the person trading fiat for Bitcoin and the person trading Bitcoin for fiat).

Exchanges which directly trade with the user usually have different prices for selling and buying, usually 2% to 3% of by each other (1% to 1.5% from the middle so you're slightly worse off than trading with another person through an exchange).

However, there are exchanges which take much higher fees. Many charge extra depending on the payment option chosen on the fiat side. The most expensive serious one I was able to one has a 10% fee when paying via PayPal and a few weeks ago, someone on this site asked a question about how an exchange with a ludicrously high fee (it was around a third of the value exchanged, like in your case) could exist. Well, its existence of course doesn't mean that it's used a lot ... or at all.

You can easily find exchanges for your country by selecting it here and looking for the fees of a few exchanges listed for it.