员工

员 = 口 + 贝 : Mnemonic symbol from 服务员, a waiter.

员 = 口 + 贝 : Yu the Great and a crab are having dinner just inside the anthill's kitchen. They ordered mandarins, and the waiter serves them.

工 = 二 + 丨 : Mnemonic symbol: a steel beam, since 工 looks like the cross section of a steel beam. In front of the engine ((e)ng1), Gitta Giraffe (gu) is doing some hard work: She's stacking a capacitor (二) on a dinosaur bone (丨) on a capacitor (二). She's not very successful, but then she gets the idea to use steel beams (工) as support.