Seriously, AUS?

This has had to have been the worst security experience ever at Austin-Bergstrom. I was able to get through the premier security check without hassle (avoiding the hundred families crammed in the regular queue). However, in another version of "why bother to be consistent when we can be assholes," I had to opt-out of the radiation box, whereas families could just do the magnetometer alone.

How does that make any sense?

To make matters worse, they were "short handed today," and didn't have anyone available to do the manual check. How do you mismanage things so badly that you don't have enough people to do all the useless busy-work security theater you've invented? You made the stupid rules up, therefore you should know how many people you need.

Plus the plane doesn't appear to be here yet, suggesting that I'm not going to be boarding in two minutes.