Yes, I should have been. But you see, business owners will get away with paying people less if they can, and when people do not recognize that they are being underpaid or taken advantage of because they are autistic, one gets paid very little. I can give you countless examples of things that happened.

I will give you one.the

Many years ago, I was invited to work for an ex-boss as a headhunter - commission only. I accepted. He asked me what percentage I wanted. I had, up until that time been paid a basic, plus 1.5%. So I thought that asking for 5% was a lot.

So that's what I asked for.

During the one month that I worked for him, I hardly saw him work. I brought him the equivalent of $60K. At the end of the month, he called me aside, told me that 5% was $3000., but that he had to take off tax, the rental for the use of his desk, plus the use of his phone, etc.

I was aghast. You don't change an agreement after you've made it, and I told him that was not what he agreed to. I asked him how much he had made. He said he had made nothing.

In any event, he paid me the $3000. I told him I wouldn't be coming back. The very fact that he was actually getting th bulk of the money (I was working from his home, so he had no additional expenses) was disgusting to me.

Three years later, I found out that the going raate for headhunting on commission basis was 50%.