It's not clear what "write up your own response" means here, but:
1. You're in lawyer territory now. Stop talking.
2. Lawyers, the good ones anyhow, run about $350/hr minimum in the Bay Area. Quite possibly more. This will likely cost you $5k - $10k to litigate. The more you talk (and the more you tie up your lawyers time, quite probably billed in 15 minute to one hour minimums per contact -- and email or phone calls are contacts -- the more that will be.
3. Let your lawyer talk for you.
4. We've already established that you're an idiot and you were working for assholes. That's no real insult, most employees in the tech world are idiots when it comes to dealing with employment stuff. I certainly am. There's far too little training on this anywhere, and the law changes both quickly and regionally.
5. Just shut the fuck up already.
6. The fact that most employers are assholes and the law is the shits (among many other faults) are why I'm as far the fuck as I can get from tech these days. Watching my garden grow is both more rewarding and remarkably less stressful. Some plants are assholes, but I can burn them with fire, legally.
1. You're in lawyer territory now. Stop talking.
2. Lawyers, the good ones anyhow, run about $350/hr minimum in the Bay Area. Quite possibly more. This will likely cost you $5k - $10k to litigate. The more you talk (and the more you tie up your lawyers time, quite probably billed in 15 minute to one hour minimums per contact -- and email or phone calls are contacts -- the more that will be.
3. Let your lawyer talk for you.
4. We've already established that you're an idiot and you were working for assholes. That's no real insult, most employees in the tech world are idiots when it comes to dealing with employment stuff. I certainly am. There's far too little training on this anywhere, and the law changes both quickly and regionally.
5. Just shut the fuck up already.
6. The fact that most employers are assholes and the law is the shits (among many other faults) are why I'm as far the fuck as I can get from tech these days. Watching my garden grow is both more rewarding and remarkably less stressful. Some plants are assholes, but I can burn them with fire, legally.