Colleague goes over and above. How to deal with it?

[Amoregelato]

I work in an environment which is very stressful and there are not enough hours of the working day to get everything that needs doing done. It is relentless and really hard work. It is not well paid for the workload and responsibility.

We have a team of nine who are all lovely people. Two of those nine always go above and beyond in their work. They work late at night sending emails and doing admin tasks. They arrive early and they leave late. The issue is that they make the rest of us look bad and it looks like the job is manageable when it really isn't. They are both aware of what they do and when we have meetings they always say they'll stop working at night but ultimately they carry on.

How would you deal with this?

I 100% agree.

OP, honestly if you haven’t been called out on anything and your work is good, you won’t have anything to worry about!

Life is too short to work additional hours unpaid. Your colleagues are heading for burnout and it’s completely unhealthy.

Hahahaha! Welcome to education! 😂

They are not making you and your other coworkers look bad they are making themselves look stupid!!!!
the only people that will remember how hard and long they worked are their families!
let them carry on doing what they are doing, burnout will take them off soon enough.

I've worked with these eager beavers. Got paid the same as me but complained about managers ringing/emailing them directly and suggesting opportunities are available ie more work money manager takes the credit. I leave them all to it.